Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

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We have got to stop him and the other side of this is if they let Ken go, he's acting recklessly, he's trying to kill people.

By firing his gun at him, if he gets away and he comes in contact with the public, people are going to say, how could the police let him get away?

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Today on Small Town Dicks we are so lucky to have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dave. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It's good to see you. It's a pleasure to be here.

As always. Thanks for joining us Dave. Thank you. Daniel. And we have Detective Dan. I'm here. You are here. As always. Okay, all right then. Back it down. And Small Town Fam.

We are so pleased to welcome back to the podcast. Detective Chad. Hello. Thanks for having me back. Thanks for coming back. So Chad, you have a really interesting case.

Interesting case. Yes. Why don't you just start tell us how this case came to you. Well, this started with a traffic stop that one of our patrol deputies made in one of our contract cities about midnight I think.

He sees a vehicle looks suspicious. It runs a stop sign. So he initiates a traffic stop. He checks out gives a license plate number to dispatch.

As he's out of his car and walking up. The report comes back from dispatch that the license plates are stolen.

Which would suggest the car is probably stolen also. So he stops. And at that point the driver looks out the driver's side window looks back at the deputy puts it in gear and stomps on the gas and takes off.

So the deputy initiates a pursuit with him. And it's going on the highway away from town. It's pretty high speeds. Beads are around 90 up to 100 at some points.

But there's no traffic. It's a summer night. Clear roads. That section of the highways basically flattened straight. So he stays with the pursuit. Other deputies are coming trying to get out there to help him out.

And he sees a flash and recognizes that's a muscle flash. This guy's shooting at me. And this deputy he recognizes a muscle flash. He was in the military. He's seen gunfire coming his way before.

So he backs off stays with the guy still, but backs off. Slowing up, you know, waiting for more deputies to catch up or state police if they're out in that area.

And he continues the chase, but way slacked off the suspect turns on to a side road, rural country road that eventually turns into a gravel road.

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