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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.

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