Chase into Jennings County ends with arrest of fugitive

Jennings County deputies along with the department’s police dog Vampir helped Seymour officers arrest a man who had fled into the neighboring county overnight.

The sheriff’s department reports that the Seymour police pursued a vehicle into Jennings County where it crashed and the suspect fled into the woods. Sgt. Allen Ritchie and Vampir pursued the man and Vampir immobilized him.

He was first taken to Schneck Medical Center to be treated for injuries and then to the Jackson County Jail, where he was booked in at 7:42 a.m. this morning.

According to jail reports, the suspect, 45-year-old Boyd Barrett of Deputy, had outstanding Jennings County felony warrants for resisting law enforcement. He is facing new charges of resisting law enforcement, resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, criminal recklessness with a vehicle, reckless driving, driving while suspended and possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.