Columbia man charged with felony after leading police on chase, abandoning running vehicle
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Columbia man has been charged with a felony after he was allegedly involved in a chase with Columbia police on Wednesday morning.
Anthony Munzo, 33, was charged with aggravated fleeing. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond and has a hearing on Friday afternoon.
Court documents say that a Columbia police officer was driving his patrol vehicle at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday when he said Munzo driving a red Ford C-Max om the 2400 block of Paris Road. The officer wrote that Munzo had five active warrants and he had seen Munzo drive the vehicle before.
The officer tried to start a traffic stop, but Munzo sped away through a Casey’s parking lot before driving 80 miles per hour on Brown Station Road, which is a 35 mph zone, the probable cause statement says. Munzo then drove into Park Village Trailer Court and got out of the vehicle while it was still moving, the statement says.
Munzo then ran to a trailer and the officer was able to stop the Ford, the statement says. A witness told police that Munzo was supposedly going to buy something from a gas station and when he took longer than expected, they sent him a message, which he indicated he was getting chased by police, the statement says.
Munzo got away, but police came back later in the day and found him in a closet in a trailer, the statement says. Munzo allegedly told the officer than he ran “for miles to the north,” the statement says. He then thanked the officer for stopping the vehicle he left running, court documents say.
He allegedly told police that he ran because he knew he had warrants for his arrest. A probation violation hearing is set in multiple cases for 8:30 a.m. Monday.