Two people were taken into custody and one is wanted after a police chase ended near Carolina Forest High School in Horry County.
According to Brooke Holden, with the Horry County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy responded to a narcotics complaint in the area of Singleton Ridge Road around 3:20 p.m. on Wednesday. The deputy initiated a traffic stop and the driver fled in the car.
Deputies were able to take the driver and another person into custody near Carolina Forest High School, Holden said. One other person in the vehicle has not been located. The search for this person was suspended for the night on Wednesday.
Demetrius Quantrell Bellamy, of Conway, is charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, failure to stop for blue lights/siren, driving with no license/suspended status, and reckless driving, Holden also said. Bellamy has prior convictions for auto theft and failure to stop for blue lights.
According to a case report from the HCSO, deputies responded to the Cornerstone Commons Apartments, located on Singleton Ridge Rd. in Conway, for a complaint of “illicit drug activity” around 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Upon driving through the complex, several people were observed “hanging out/loitering in the parking lot.”
Three people left the area in a silver Nissan Sentra and deputies initiated a traffic stop for a traffic violation on Singleton Ridge Rd., prior to Trolley Rd, the report said. The vehicle “failed to stop for blue lights and siren and lead police on a vehicle pursuit from Singleton Ridge Road, onto eastbound US Hwy 501 and onto Gardner Lacey Blvd.” The vehicle was “abandoned in the wood line of Gardner Lacey Blvd., south of Southern Trail, adjacent to Carolina Forest High School, and the driver and passengers fled on foot.”
One suspect was arrested, another person was detained and later released without charges, and a third person is still wanted, according to the report. Efforts continue to identify this person.
According to J. Reuben Long Detention Center booking records, Bellamy, 25, was booked around 4:53 p.m. on Wednesday and remains in the center as of 4:45 p.m. on Friday.
“During dismissal this afternoon, Horry County deputies were near and on campus at Carolina Forest High School looking for one suspect who bailed from a vehicle after a car chase in front of the school on Gardner Lacy Road. All students were dismissed in a safe manner,” Lisa Bourcier, with Horry County Schools, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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