COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The second of two suspects involved in a Friday afternoon pursuit was arraigned in Branch County District Court on Monday.
50-year-old Scott Allen Calloway of Bronson was charged with second degree fleeing from a police officer, possession of methamphetamine, receiving and concealing a stolen motor vehicle and assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer.
According to court records, Calloway tried to run away from a Sheriff’s deputy after the pursuit ended. As he was being arrested, the deputy found what appeared to be meth inside of a flashlight. Calloway was convicted in March of 2017 of third degree fleeing and eluding in Branch County Circuit Court.
Calloway stood mute during his arraignment and a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf.
Bond was set at $125,000. A probable cause hearing was set for February 8 with a preliminary exam on February 14.
The other suspect, 30-year-old Stephanie Nikole Thyng of Bronson, was formally charged on Saturday with assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer.
A probable cause affidavit said Thyng ran from the vehicle and had to be tackled in some nearby woods by a Sheriff’s deputy.
According to Branch County court documents, she was the passenger in the 2016 Toyota Tacoma which was reported stolen out of Clinton County just before 2 p.m. on Friday.
When Branch County Sheriff’s Department deputies tried to pull the vehicle over near U.S. 12 and Michigan Avenue after the City of Coldwater’s new Automated License Plate Readers triggered an alert, Calloway allegedly fled from the scene. Speeds were over 100 MPH during the pursuit which went down numerous roads before it ended in a field near Nash and Garfield Roads. A probable cause affidavit says objects were thrown out of the suspect vehicle. A couple of other vehicles were cut off during the chase by the suspect.
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