A man wanted for kidnapping and other crimes in Missouri has been spotted in northeast Ohio.
At 4:29AM Tuesday, a Westlake Police officer tried to question a male sleeping in a pickup truck at the Hampton Inn on Detroit Road. The male took off westbound on Detroit Road. into Avon near Avon Commons, where Westlake PD called off the pursuit.
At 4:44AM, North Ridgeville Police reported chasing the same vehicle eastbound on Center Ridge Road and that one of the truck’s tires had been deflated by their stop-sticks. The vehicle then became disabled on Center Ridge east of Dover Center Road in Westlake and the driver ran off.
North Olmsted Police, Rocky River Police and the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office K9 were called in to help search for the unknown suspect. The Pennsylvania plate on the truck was found to have been stolen in South Strabane Township, PA. The truck itself was stolen from Weirton, WV.
At 9:56AM, the search of the area for the suspect was called off. The suspect driver has since been identified through evidence in the truck as 23-year-old Brian James Adkison of Columbia, Missouri.
He is an August 10 escapee from the Caldwell County Detention Center in Kingston, Missouri where he faces kidnapping, domestic violence, and violating a temporary protection order charges.
Adkison is also wanted in Boone County, Missouri, for rape and burglary charges. Adkison is 6’0 165lbs, short light brown hair brown eyes, has a scruffy beard and was wearing black shorts and a light color t-shirt.
If anyone sees Brian Adkison, call 9-1-1. He is not known to be armed but is a wanted felon.
Courtesy of Cleveland News Radio
