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At 7:42 p.m. Monday, Paris police were dispatched to a theft of a motor vehicle. The complainant said their vehicle had been stolen and that they were following the vehicle.
Officers eventually found the vehicle in the 700 block of 1st Street NW. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle but the driver refused to stop. A chase ensued and eventually stopped in the 200 block of West Shiloh Street where the vehicle became stuck in the ditch, police said.
The driver, 27-year-old Aaron Javon McGee, of Paris, was removed from the vehicle and arrested. McGee was charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, resisting arrest search or transport, evading arrest or detention with a vehicle and possession of a controlled substance.
Paris police responded to a complaint of a possible intoxicated driver in the 4200 block of Bonham Street at 5:49 p.m. Saturday. Officers eventually found the vehicle in the 3000 block of NE Loop 286.
Officers said they attempted to stop the vehicle in the 3800 block of Pine Mill Road. They said the vehicle stopped in the 5000 block of Pine Mill Rd but sped away when an officer got out of his vehicle.
The vehicle came to a stop in the 400 block of Pine Valley. The driver, 40-year-old Max Aubrey McCraw, of Reno, was arrested and charged with evading arrest or detention with a vehicle and driving while intoxicated.