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ELLINWOOD, KAN — Around 9:46 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, police were called to the area of Northeast 10 Road and Northeast 120 Avenue near Ellinwood. They found an abandoned vehicle in the roadway, which was impounded by deputies.

Shortly after, calls began coming in saying someone was driving a combine east of Ellinwood in a reckless manner. The combine was reported weaving from ditch to ditch on US 56. It struck a guy-wire and caused damage to power poles near the intersection of Southeast 10 Road and US 56.

Photo by the Barton County Sheriff

At 10:47 p.m. the driver drove through a residential neighborhood, hitting several power poles and a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck parked on the road. While the truck sustained extensive damage, the eight-row combine header was torn from the combine.

Attempts to contact the driver was made at 10:52 p.m. at which time the driver put the machine in reverse and rammed the Ellinwod police car. The driver fled the scene, in the combine, and a chase ensued, proceeding down several more side streets, south out of town onto county roads. It was traveling all over the road and with no lights.

A roadblock was set by a sheriff’s deputy, but the combine rammed the patrol car, dragging it a distance and disabling the car. Officers fired approximately 18 rounds into the combine to disable it.

The driver was identified as Kenneth M. Lamb Jr., 37, and stolen near the area where his vehicle had been located and abandoned in the roadway.

Lamb was arrested and booked for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, felony theft, felony criminal damage to property, and reckless driving.

The case is still under investigation.

Source: KSN.com