Five teenagers were arrested just after midnight Thursday morning after leading police on a car chase through Brainerd and tossing a pistol and marijuana from the car.
According to the arrest affidavit for Horatio Houston, 18, an officer was sitting at the intersection of Tunnel Boulevard and Shallowford Road when he saw a black Ford Expedition that had recently been connected to multiple drive-by shootings throughout the city. The most recent was a Sunday shooting in the 2600 block of Glass Street where a house was shot multiple times with a .45 caliber gun.
Horatio HoustonThe officer pulled out behind the car and turned on his lights as the car traveled south on Tunnel Boulevard, but the driver sped off and made a left turn onto Ridgeside Road.
The officer notified dispatch of the pursuit before the suspects turned right onto N. Germantown Road and while he was chasing them, he saw something shiny being thrown from the driver’s side.
Eventually the car pulled into a gated driveway at 31 N Germantown Road and the officer got the driver, Houston, out of the car and took him into custody. Also in the car were four juveniles.