Kidnapping suspect captured after late night interstate chase

TRENTON, Georgia (WDEF) – A chase on the interstate late Thursday night ended with a pit maneuver by police and the arrest of a suspect.

Marion County deputies spotted a stolen vehicle on I 24 around 10 PM.

They said it was driven by a man wanted for kidnapping a woman who had testified against him in court.

The chase continued onto I 59 in Georgia.

The Dade County Sheriff says the suspect called his 911 dispatchers during the chase claiming he was armed and would kill the officers pursing him and himself.

A Georgia trooper used a pit maneuver to disable the car in the median at Rising Fawn.

Then a Trenton officer pinned him in.

27 year old Jimmy D. Morton from Whitwell was arrested without further incident.

He now face charges in Tennessee and Georgia.