WYANDOT—At 10:15 am Tuesday, detectives from the Wyandot County Major Crimes Unit were attempting to serve a warrant on a person wanted for a probation violation.
While conducting surveillance, detectives observed a person matching the suspect’s description in a grey 2009 Chevrolet truck leaving the Village of Carey.
Detectives followed the suspect in the Chevrolet truck to US 23 and County Highway 47 in Wyandot County, where a traffic stop was initiated.
The suspect fled in the vehicle reaching speeds over 100 MPH.
The suspect exited US 23 and went eastbound on US 30 towards Hancock County. The suspect exited US 30 and led detectives and deputies on a 20-plus mile chase.
The suspects in the vehicle began throwing objects out the windows at law enforcement.
When the suspects entered Hancock County, the suspect began driving the vehicle through fields.
Hancock County Deputies joined the pursuit as the suspect led law enforcement through fields in his vehicle.
The suspect’s vehicle became disabled from driving over fences and through ditches. The vehicle came to final rest in a standing field of corn in Ridge Township, in Wyandot County. The suspect and a female passenger that was inside the vehicle ran from deputies in the standing corn. Hancock and Wyandot County K-9 units were deployed.
Both subjects were located in the cornfield.
The vehicle’s driver was identified as Joseph J. Tuttle, age 35, of Findlay. The passenger of the vehicle was his wife, Jenilee J. Tuttle, age 40.
Joseph Tuttle was booked into the Wyandot County Jail on a probation warrant. Jenilee Tuttle was booked in the Wyandot County Jail on felony charges.
Additional felony criminal charges are pending per review of the Wyandot County Prosecutor’s Office.
Assisting the Wyandot County Major Crime Unit were the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office, the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, the Bucyrus Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and the Upper Sandusky Police Department.
Crawford County Now will continue to cover this developing story.