1/30/21
A police chase on Melrose Avenue has led to the arrest of a pair of armed suspects with previous weapons convictions.
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were responding to a medical emergency just after 11 Friday morning when they observed a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Mormon Trek Boulevard. A Cadillac involved in the incident fled the scene westbound on Melrose, and the deputies began a pursuit. The Cadillac crashed into a ditch as it was trying to turn southbound onto Highway 218.
Deputies say two men then exited the vehicle and tried to flee on foot. At one point one of the men, identified as 18-year-old Marwan Abdull Maged of the Pheasant Ridge Apartments on Bartelt Road, allegedly threw a gun to the other suspect, identified as 20-year-old Zackarie Porter of Glen Oaks Drive in Coralville, but the gun fell into the snow. Abdull Maged was arrested after he fell into the snow and gave himself up. Porter also ev
Timothy J. Turnbo, 46, of Festus was injured Saturday evening (Dec. 26) when he crashed a car into a firetruck on Hwy. A west of Glen Oaks Drive northwest of Festus, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.
At 6:47 p.m., Turnbo was driving a 2008 Chevrolet Impala east on the highway and crossed the center line into the path of a westbound 2012 Rosenbauer America Municipal firetruck, and the car struck the front of the truck, the report said.
After the collision, the car ran off the left side of the highway and overturned, according to the report.
Robert C. Aubuchon, 38, of De Soto was driving the firetruck, which belongs to the Mapaville Fire Protection District. No injuries were reported for him.