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Stanley man charged with reckless driving

A 22-year-old Stanley man is accused of injuring himself and another man while driving recklessly and fleeing from law enforcement on May 12.

Nicholus Avery Houchin made an initial appearance in district court in Stanley on two Class A misdemeanor charges of aggravated reckless driving and fleeing a police officer.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Houchin was driving his yellow dirt bike around town that evening. Shadwick Walker called police to report that he had seen the bike and he was trying to stop it. A Stanley police officer spotted the bike and pursued it, but Houchin refused to stop.

At the intersection of the Stanley pond road and 81st Avenue NW in Stanley, the officer observed a semi-truck parked in the south bound lane and a white pick-up truck blocking the north bound lane. Houchin’s dirt bike veered off the roadway and onto the shoulder to avoid the pickup truck. The officer wrote that as the dirt bike veered down into the ditch, he saw Shadwick Walker run down into the ditch in front of the dirt bike trying to stop him. Walker got directly in front of the path of the dirt bike. Houchin didn’t have time to stop and hit him.

Houchin was taken to Mountrail County Medical Center with a broken left ankle.

Walker was taken to Trinity Hospital in Minot with two broken bones in one leg below the knee and one broken bone in the other leg above the knee along with a fractured hip.

A Shadwick Walker, 38, from Stanley was found guilty by a jury on March 2 of corruption or solicitation of a minor. He had sex with a girl in a camper parked on the east side of Stanley when she was 16. Walker was found not guilty of one count of Class AA felony gross sexual imposition and the jury was not able to reach a verdict on a second count of Class AA felony gross sexual imposition. A mistrial was declared and the state filed a notice of intent to retry Walker on the remaining charge. A story in The Minot Daily News in March mistakenly said Walker had been found not guilty of both GSI charges.

Walker had been scheduled to be sentenced on the corruption charge on June 1, but the sentencing date was canceled, according to court records. A status conference to reschedule the sentencing date has been set for July 6 before Judge Gary Lee.

– Andrea Johnson

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