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Cloverdale man faces additional charges following car, foot pursuit
Indiana State Police Bloomington District Master Trooper Ryan White detains Kyle McCammon Tuesday afternoon following a car chase and subsequent foot chase starting Monday evening.
CLOVERDALE -- One man is in custody after an attempted traffic stop Monday evening led Cloverdale police on a high speed chase and subsequent foot pursuit Tuesday morning.
Around 6:30 p.m. Monday, Cloverdale Police Sgt. Charlie Hallam saw Kyle A. McCammon, 27, Cloverdale, driving through town, who he knew had a local warrant for a probation violation. He failed a drug test while on probation for two separate cases in 2013 and 2014, including charges of intimidation, harassment and domestic battery.
Cloverdale Police Chief Mike Clark said Sgt. Hallam attempted to initiate a traffic stop on Brown Avenue near the high school, but McCammon instead accelerated away from the officer. The suspect continued onto Grant Street at speeds upwards of 80 mph, blowing through the stop signs on every block.
McCammon continued through town and at Long Street, on the south end of town, went off the road into a yard at which point he fled on foot into the woods.
Clark said the Putnam County Sheriff's Department and Owen County Sheriff's Department assisted in a search of the wooded area, but as it started to get dark around 10:30 p.m. officers decided to call off the search.
The search continued around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday when Clark received a tip McCammon was hiding out at his father's residence in Owen County on North Cataract Road. Clark made contact with the father, but said McCammon should not be at the residence.
Once officers arrived at the North Cataract Road residence to inquire about McCammon's whereabouts, he fled the residence from a back bedroom window.
"Charlie and I got into a foot pursuit with him and we got down into the woods," Clark said.
With the help of the Owen County Sheriff's Department and Indiana State Police, a perimeter was set up in the woods surrounding the residence. ISP deployed a helicopter searching the area, while Hallam had K9 Chewy on scene and Roachdale Town Marshal Mike Mahoy assisted with K9 Toby.
"The K9s got to the point they were just worn out and couldn't go anymore. He (McCammon) just kept moving," Clark said.
Clark said the pursuit covered an area of a couple miles. The North Cataract Road residence was about a mile west of U.S. 231 and the pursuit led officers to an area on Mill Grove Road. Eventually, Clark caught up with him about a mile south of the original point of contact.
"I had a visual on him there, but there was a pond between me and him. As soon as he saw me, he took off again," Clark said.
The police got another much needed tip when a passerby stopped an officer to ask if he was looking for a man in a green shirt. She told the officer she had given the man a ride to his grandmother's house, which was located behind McCammon's father's house.
The grandmother gave police the code to enter her house, but they were unable to locate the suspect. The officers once again went back to the father's house where they found a pair of wet socks they believed were McCammon's.
Around 3 p.m. Tuesday, McCammon was located inside the basement of his father's North Cataract Road residence.
He was arrested and transported to Putnam County Hospital for evaluation of cuts sustained from running through the woods.
Once released from PCH, McCammon will be transported to Owen County Jail on charges of resisting law enforcement. He will also be facing additional charges in Putnam County, including resisting law enforcement and reckless endangerment, stemming from the high-speed chase through Cloverdale Monday night.