BRENHAM MAN ARRESTED AFTER HIGH SPEED CHASE

  

 Cpl Steven Eilert arrested a driver for evading arrest on Sunday around 1 am.

Eilert observed the vehicle running a stop light at Tom Green and Chappell Hill Street and then accelerate to

Charles Bartley
Charles Bartley

a high rate of speed.

Eilert attempted to stop the vehicle, traveling up to 65 mph with his lights and siren activated.

The driver made no effort to stop and continued to run stop signs, and eventually came to a stop in the driveway in the 1400 Block of Briar Point.

Eilert made contract with the driver, twenty-three year old Charles E Bartley, of Brenham, who had a strong smell of alcohol on his breath.

Bartley refused to perform a field sobriety test, so Eilert obtained a warrant to draw blood.

The driver was taken to the Washington County Jail, and charged with DWI and evading arrest with a motor vehicle.

Bartley’s record indicated he had a previous conviction of evading arrest, which will make this new charge a third degree felony.

 

 

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  1. Im afraid a lot of people speed in town and in the daytime even. Usually kids and young adults and usually on the longer stretches of road like Tom Green and Stone and neibur before you get to Blue Bell, and certainly on Blue Bell. I’ve seen it many times. I’m sure young people do it often just for “fun”, some people do it when they’re late for something, some people just have “lead” feet. I didn’t say that it’s good or right but plenty of people do it.
    The route that Charles took was 8 tenths of a mile with some left hand turns. If he was ever going 65 it was for a very short time, like 2-3 seconds if that long. Still I’m not saying it was good or right.
    That was not what I was debating. It was the evading arrest and the “chase” that I say did not happen. I still believe that. As for my information being hearsay so was that of the person who wrote the article. That person heard (or read) one side; I heard the other.

  2. The “Again” poster is wrong. The DA did not give Charles Bartley a pass. The sentence was standard for evading arrest and was very hard on both Charles and his family.
    What happened a few days ago was not evading arrest. Charles did not see any police lights until a few houses before his own house, to which he was going. When he saw the lights he pulled into his own driveway and got out of his car to speak with the police.

      1. I could not agree more. Even if he did not see the bright red and blue lights, or hear the blaring siren that is going off. What is he doing traveling at 65mph in town. That is the speed on the highway! Who in their right mind does that in town? Atleast it was not during daylight hours when children could have been out.

    1. The way I see it If you were not in the car with the suspect or in the patrol car or watched the video from the dashboard camera your information is hearsay.

  3. Sounds like some of your readers may have forgotten that here in the United States a person is innocent until proven guilty.

  4. My brother and his passenger are fortunate to be alive after that high-speed chase several years back. He made a poor decision this time as well, yet the article is a bit inaccurate, and the high-speed pursuit part is questionable.

  5. Mr. Bartley has done this before. His last high speed pursuit ended in a wreck that almost killed him and his passenger. Our former DA gave him a pass on that pursuit. I think the results for this pursuit with the current DA will be different. Some people just don’t learn.

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