Red Oak Police say a teenager faces an eluding charge and three moving violations, following a brief pursuit involving an ATV. Authorities say at around 7:40-p.m. Saturday, officers with the Red Oak P-D tried to stop an ATV near the intersection of Broadway and Coolbaugh Streets. The ATV failed to yield, and took off westbound on west Coolbaugh Street at a high rate of speed.

Officers pursued the ATV westbound to the levy area before the machine then turned south onto the levy and continued to try and elude officers at a high rate of speed. The ATV continued to the area of West Ohio and the Nishnabotna River, where the machine became stuck in a creek.

The driver, 16-year old Lee Allen Edds, Jr., of Red Oak, took off on foot but was apprehended a short time later by Montgomery County Sheriffs Deputies and Red Oak Police, on a sandbar next to the river. Edds was transported to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center, processed and then released to the custody of a parent at the request of Juvenile Court Services.

In addition to the eluding charge, Edds was cited for Failure to Obey a Stop sign, Operating an ATV on a public roadway, and for being a Minor in Possession of Tobacco/1st offense.