Wheeling Police have filed criminal charges against a person involved in a traffic pursuit over the weekend. Around 2 a.m., Sunday, an officer patrolling Wheeling Island recognized a vehicle that had recently been reported stolen.
The driver of the stolen vehicle went on to commit various traffic violations, failed to adhere to the officer’s attempt to make a traffic stop, and sped away, fleeing into Ohio.
The suspect initially led police on a chase on I-70 West to Exit 220 in Ohio and onto various local roadways. The Ohio Highway Patrol then located the vehicle and pursued it back into West Virginia on I-470. The chase ended in the area of 27th and Main Streets in South Wheeling.
Police arrested 27-year-old Savana Dawn Gwynn of Wheeling. She is charged with fleeing, receiving and transferring stolen goods, a fugitive from justice and a capias. Similar charges are pending against a second occupant of the vehicle.
Gwynn was taken to the Northern Regional Jail by WPD.
