Derrick Walker charged with criminal mischief, fleeing police
Derrick Eugene Walker, 25, Louisville, Ky., is accused of crashing his car into a snowbank and several trees in New Town and running away from the accident on Wednesday.
Walker is charged with Class C felony criminal mischief and Class C felony fleeing a police officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, New Town police were investigating a report of domestic violence involving Walker as a suspect. Officers spotted Walker’s crashed vehicle and a witness said she had seen a man running away. Police caught Walker and placed him under arrest.
Walker told police he had slid on the ice while driving the vehicle. The vehicle struck a snowbank, narrowly missing a vehicle parked in a driveway, and then went into another snowbank, striking several trees, a mail box and two garbage cans. The vehicle sustained front end damage.