A Starkville man is facing a slew of charges after leading Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a chase Sunday evening.
OCSO received a complaint about 25-year-old LiJames Derez Halbert using counterfeit money to purchase a vehicle from an individual, according to Lt. Brett Watson. Halbert was spotted near the scene, and led deputies on a high-speed chase that Watson said started near Highway 12 and Old Highway 12 and ended in the Sunset subdivision west of Starkville.
Halbert abandoned the vehicle after an accident, and officers arrested him after a short foot chase.
Watson said no one was injured in the chase or accident.
Halbert is facing charges of felony taking of a motor vehicle, felony malicious mischief, uttering forgery, false pretense, felony failure to stop a motor vehicle and an officer signals, and “a host” of misdemeanors.
Halbert has been booked in the Oktibbeha County Jail, where he remains on $52,729 bond.
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