A man who led Jackson and DeKalb deputies on a two-county chase in Alabama is now hospitalized in Chattanooga after he told medical officials he had swallowed meth.
Billy Blake, 42, will have charges pending against him in Jackson County after he is released from the hospital, Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen said Wednesday.
Harnen said a Jackson County deputy was attempting to make a traffic stop when the chase began around midnight late Monday/early Tuesday near the town of Dutton and the Jackson-DeKalb county line.
“DeKalb County had several units involved, too, and they ran him to Rainsville where he wrecked,” Harnen said. When Blake wouldn’t get out of the car, Harnen said, deputies forced their way in and removed him.
Since he’d been in a crash, Blake was transported by Jackson County officers to Highlands Medical Center in Scottsboro to make sure he was OK, Harnen said.