WHEELING, W.Va. – A Wheeling woman landed in the West Virginia Northern Regional Jail after she allegedly fled from police during a multi-state traffic pursuit, according to the Wheeling Police Department.
Wheeling Police arrested 27-year-old Savana Dawn Gwynn of Wheeling. She is charged with fleeing, receiving and transferring stolen goods, being a fugitive from justice and a capias.
The incident began around 2 a.m., Sunday, when an officer patrolling Wheeling Island recognized a vehicle that had recently been reported stolen.
The driver of the stolen vehicle allegedly made various traffic violations, failed to adhere to the officer’s attempt to make a traffic stop, and sped away, fleeing into Ohio.
The suspect allegedly led police on a chase on I-70 West to Exit 220 in Ohio and onto various local roadways. The Ohio Highway Patrol 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.
Gwynn was taken to the Northern Regional Jail by Wheeling Police, where she remains as of Tuesday morning.
Charges are pending against a second occupant of the vehicle.
