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Suspect arrested after high-speed pursuit

Michael Stamper released Tuesday from jail with a tracking device.

Submitted Michael Stamper, 28, was arrested Feb. 24 after a high-speed pursuit.

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By Richard Wilson, Staff Writer Updated 7:41 PM Tuesday, March 2, 2010

MORROW — After five days of incarceration, a man who led police on a high-speed chase through several communities is being released from the Warren County Jail.

Michael Keith Stamper, 28, of Morrow, appeared today, March 2, before Judge Donald Oda II for a preliminary hearing in Warren County Court. Stamper was released from jail with a location tracking device and charges of reckless operation, failure to comply with a police order and driving under suspension were bound over to a grand jury, court officials said.

Police said Stamper sped away from a traffic stop on U.S. 22-3 near Morrow-Cozaddale Road on Wednesday, Feb. 24, and led Morrow police Chief Heath Kilburn and Hamilton Twp. officers on a high-speed pursuit. The chase proceeded along Ohio 48 into Lebanon and ended without capture near the Warren/Clinton county line.

Stamper was arrested hours after the chase at a home in South Lebanon, where he called police to report that the vehicle he was driving, a 1996 green Volkswagen four-door hatchback, had been stolen, according to Kilburn.

During the pursuit, Stamper was able to avoid the tire-puncturing “Stop Sticks” deployed by Warren County Sheriff’s deputies at three different points along Ohio 48.

Deputies had better luck in the early morning hours of Sunday, Feb. 28, in a high-speed pursuit along northbound Interstate 71. Warren County Sheriff Larry Sims said a deputy assisted Cincinnati police by stopping a reported stolen 2004 Toyota Corolla with “Stop Sticks” near the Ohio 48 exit. Sims said the vehicle’s tires punctured and the arrest was made about three miles down the highway.

Contact this reporter at (513) 696-4542 or rwilson@coxohio.com.

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