Pursuit ends in crash
A Rogers man is in jail after leading sheriff’s deputies on two high-speed pursuits, stealing a vehicle and crashing into the deputies’ vehicles. The pursuit began in northeast Benton County by a Benton County Sheriff’s deputy and a black Escalade on Sunday, Feb. 18. Bobby Lee Periman, 34, of Rogers, was still incarcerated Tuesday, Feb. 27, in lieu of $103,520 in bonds.
According to the incident report, deputies were notified of a suspicious circumstance involving a dark colored Escalade “going fast down the road” and driving up and down on Cemetery Road near U.S. Highway 62 in the Avoca area. When the deputy found the vehicle, it drove quickly away from him at speeds up to 71 miles per hour, according to the report, traveling past stop signs without stopping on U.S. Hwy. 62, Pleasant Hill Road, North Old Wire Road, Landers Road and Lester Lane.
According to the report, the Escalade traveled into a muddy field near a business on Landers Road and through three yards, according to the report. The deputy reported he lost sight of the vehicle due to the terrain.
Police received a report of a 911 call received by Central Communications of the Escalade abandoned at a residence on Hill Top Drive, Little Flock, and a red Dodge Magnum stolen. Little Flock Police responded along with Sheriff’s deputies.
Found in the abandoned Escalade was a “modified rifle-type weapon,” according to the report.
Multiple law enforcement officers were involved in the incident which included a second vehicle pursuit with the stolen vehicle. That pursuit ended with the Magnum and deputies’ vehicles wrecked near Brush Creek Drive and Hill Top Drive. According to the report, Periman had used his
vehicle to hit a deputy’s Tahoe causing him to hit a tree.
Bobby Lee Periman, 34, Rogers, by BCSO, was charged with two counts of felony breaking or entering; felony theft of motor vehicle; felony fleeing by vehicle with extreme indifference; reckless driving, felony possession of firearm by certain persons, failure to appear from Pea Ridge; failure to appear from Benton County; two counts of aggravated assault upon a certified law enforcement officer or employee of a correctional facility; and three counts of felony first-degree criminal mischief. He was booked into the Benton County Jail.