Suspect gets 40 years for high speed chase and drugs along state line
RINGGOLD, Georgia (WDEF) – The District Attorney’s Office in northwest Georgia is releasing details on a trial last month that sent a man to prison for meth trafficking and a chase that ended in Chattanooga.
The chase happened in the summer of 2021.
Drug task force agents were driving on Highway 27 in Rossville, when a vehicle pulled up beside them driven by a man with an active parole warrant.
They say when Jonathan Harold Brown saw the drug agents, he slumped down into his seat and slowed his vehicle hoping they would pass him.
Instead, they tried to pull him over and he ran.
The chase topped 100 miles an hour.
It went into Catoosa County, running vehicles off the road and with Brown driving on the wrong side.
Eventually he wrecked in Hamilton County.
Police testified that during the chase, he threw a backpack out of his vehicle at the intersection of Redbud Avenue and Farmland drive in Fort Oglethorpe.
Fort Oglethorpe Police recovered it and found bags of meth, scales and drug paraphernalia.
A gun and other narcotics were found nearby in the ditch.
Police also found $3,000 in cash on Brown.
He has been convicted of drug charges six times before.
After a two day trial at the end of March, Brown was convicted by a jury on drug and fleeing charges.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison without parole.
District Attorney Fuller stated “Methamphetamine has devastated our small-town communities and destroyed lives. Combating this opioid and meth epidemics will be a key priority to my administration. Together with law enforcement, we are going to punch back twice as hard at the cartels and drug traffickers and ensure they get lengthy prison sentences.”
