CALLAWAY — A Callaway man has been arrested after allegedly crashing two stolen cars while attempting to elude police, according to Bay County Sheriff’s Office reports.
Dustin Allen Sikes, 24, was arrested Monday after allegedly crashing one stolen car into a tree and escaping capture on foot. The next day he again allegedly crashed another stolen car, this time into a house, before being arrested and taken to jail, BCSO reported.
Sikes was charged Monday with a litany of offenses, ranging from reckless driving to false imprisonment, according to court documents.
Police picked up a female after the white 1998 Nissan Altima she had been riding in crashed into a tree on East Fourth Street. The woman said her driver, who had departed on foot after the wreck, offered her a ride at about 10:30 p.m. Friday from the Callaway Wal-Mart. Shortly after she got into the car, he pulled a gun on her and told her not to leave, she told deputies.
That was just before the officers’ patrol cruiser began to circle the Nissan in the parking lot. The two slid down in their seats, hiding from the deputies and drawing suspicion. When deputies pulled behind the car, the driver bolted out of the parking lot, pulling into traffic and nearly causing a collision, police reported.
After a short pursuit to 5402 E. Fourth St., the deputies found the emptied and mangled car crashed into a tree. The girl was found walking away from the wreckage. Inside, deputies found a cellphone belonging to Sikes, though he was nowhere to be found, police said.
At about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, bystanders flagged down deputies near the Chick-fil-A at 417 N. Tyndall Pkwy. The 1999 Dodge truck that had just passed the officers ran over one man as it was being stolen, the bystanders said.
The deputies doubled back and began chasing the truck down Cherry Street before it turned onto Indian Summer — a dead-end road. The truck careened into the house at 141 Indian Summer, and the driver ran through several backyards of the neighborhood, deputies reported.
Another female exited the vehicle with her hands raised.
A struggle ensued, with the deputies and Sikes trading blows before Sikes was arrested, according to deputy accounts.
Sikes was taken to jail for false imprisonment, reckless driving, hit and run, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, attempt to elude law enforcement and resisting arrest with violence. Deputies said Sikes had been wanted in connection with a burglary from Sip N Que Bar, where a firearm was taken from a car.
Deputies estimated the vehicles sustained about $7,500 in damage and one police radio, worth about $3,500, had been damaged in the ensuing struggle. The amount of damage caused to the home was unclear.