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Mar. 26, 2008
Kidnap try leads to car chase
By CHRISTINA EICHELKRAUT
Danny Jarvis, 32, was arrested Wednesday, March 19 after he allegedly attempted (and failed) to kidnap his girlfriend's child. At approximately 6:30 p.m., sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Leslie and Scale streets for a reported domestic battery incident involving kidnapping. Ashley Meikle, 32, reportedly called the sheriff's office and told dispatchers Jarvis had forced her out of the car in which they were riding and taken her child with him when he drove off. When deputies met with Meikle, she "had a fresh wound to her lip and it was starting to swell up and turn blue," the sheriff's office reported. Meikle explained to the deputies that she and Jarvis had been arguing in the car when he allegedly backhanded her across the face. When she got out of the car, Meikle told deputies she tried to take her child with her, but Jarvis told her she couldn't and drove away with the youth still in the vehicle. According to the sheriff's office, Jarvis is not the child's biological father. Deputies soon located the child at another address where Jarvis had dropped her off. Soon, after Jarvis led deputies on a 15-minute car chase for about 10 miles, during which he ran through several stop signs. At one point during the chase, deputies had Jarvis blocked in, but he rammed one of the patrol vehicles to get away. The alleged kidnapper than drove into the Comstock Park mobile home park. There, he pulled into a randomly chosen residence, got out of the car, hopped the fence and took off on foot out of the park and across Highway 372. With help from the K-9 unit, Jarvis was soon taken into custody. He was taken to the Nye County Detention Center and booked on charges of domestic battery, first-degree kidnapping, eluding, resisting arrest, reckless driving, and battery on a peace officer with a deadly weapon. His bail was set at $216,235. |
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