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Homicide Suspect From Pennsylvania Leads Kentucky Police On High-Speed Chase Topping 100 MPH

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky State Police trooper watching for speeders along a highway went on a wild high-speed vehicle chase with a man who ended up being a homicide suspect from Pennsylvania, authorities said.

Trooper Elliott Young was using a radar device to watch for speeding vehicles Wednesday night along the Bluegrass Parkway when he saw a truck going 110 miles per hour, state police said in an incident statement.

The trooper attempted to stop the vehicle but the suspect led him to Nelson County then back toward Hardin County. At one point, state police said, the vehicle crossed the median and went the wrong way on the parkway in excess of 100 miles per hour.

The suspect led them to Interstate 65, where the chase ended after the suspect's vehicle struck an Elizabethtown Police cruiser head-on.

Officers arrested 35-year-old Isaac Sanchez of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After Sanchez was booked, state police learned he was wanted on a criminal homicide warrant in his home state.

Sanchez was charged in Kentucky with speeding, endangerment, fleeing and evading and other charges.

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