Chase reaches speeds over 120 mph before ending in Maysville
A Fort Worth man is facing charges in Garvin County after a high-speed pursuit that began on Interstate 35 south of Pauls Valley and ended in Maysville last week.
According to court records, Capt. Shelby Humphrey with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol was traveling northbound on Interstate 35 near mile marker 68 just before 6 p.m. on Sept. 14 when he observed a white Chevrolet Corvette traveling northbound at a “high rate of speed.”
Humphrey clocked the vehicle at 123 miles per hour as it passed him. He activated his emergency lights to stop the vehicle, at which point the driver of the Corvette accelerated to speeds estimated to be in excess of 165 mph and began to pass other northbound vehicles on the shoulder as he approached a construction zone at mile marker 70.
Humphrey continued to pursue the Corvette but was forced to slow down through the construction zone, choosing not to pass on the shoulder for safety reasons.
According to the affidavit, he watched the Corvette take exit 72 at Pauls Valley, but lost sight of the vehicle at that point. Unable to determine whether the vehicle turned east or west on State Highway 19, he called dispatch to alert Maysville and Pauls Valley police to watch for the vehicle as he searched nearby parking lots.
Maysville police officer Melissa Varney said she received the call to be on the lookout for the car, just as she spotted the Corvette approaching Maysville from the east on Highway 19. According to Varney the car was traveling at a slower rate of speed as it approached, and she attempted to pull the vehicle over. Varney said the driver stopped briefly then continued to travel toward the intersection of State Highway 74 and Highway 19 in Maysville, where he got stuck behind traffic at a 4-way stop sign.
At that point, Varney said she was able to use her patrol car to box the Corvette in and pull the driver and passenger out of the car at gunpoint.
The driver, identified as 23-year-old Jakob Zachary Webb of Fort Worth, Texas, initially denied involvement in the pursuit, then later admitted he’d been speeding.
According to Humphrey’s affidavit, Webb told the officers he “had always been told if he would run that law enforcement would eventually just stop chasing him.”
Two loaded firearms were found in the car, one under both the driver and passenger seats.
Webb was charged in Garvin County District Court with one felony count of endangering others while eluding/attempting to elude a police officer and has since bonded out of jail on a $19,000 bond.
Webb’s passenger was released from the scene with no criminal charges filed.
