KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A homeless Kansas City man has been charged with robbery and resisting arrest after police say he stole a squad car, led officers on a high-speed chase and abandoned the vehicle on a rural stretch of Interstate 35 in northern Missouri.
Joshua Boyd, 30, was still on the run Friday after stealing the Kansas City police cruiser from a gas station around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. He was charged with theft in Jackson County on Thursday.
Before the theft, Boyd told an officer he was schizophrenic, off his medication and was afraid people were after him, according to a probable cause statement.
An ambulance was called to the scene, but Boyd instead jumped into the patrol car and sped off, police said. An officer who tried to stop him from leaving by holding the gear shifter and trying to remove the key managed to get out of the way and was not hurt.
A pursuit hit speeds of more than 100 mph on Broadway in the heart of the city before officers lost sight of him, police said.