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(KAIR)--A Springfield, Missouri man was taken into custody late Friday night after leading Atchison Police on a pursuit.
According to a release from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, an officer attempted to stop a Pontiac G6 passenger car shortly before 11:00 after the vehicle was observed driving at a high rate of speed in the downtown area and running through a stop sign at 8th and Kansas Avenue.
The vehicle fled from the officer and ran through stop signs at 7th, 6th , 5th and 4th on Kansas Avenue.
The vehicle then fled north on 4th and was stopped in the 300 block of Division Street.
Wilson said 23-year-old Simon Slagle was taken into custody on charges of fleeing and attempting to elude, reckless driving and speeding.
Slagle was booked into the Atchison County Jail.
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