Cornelius Police Chase Goes To SC, Ends In Arrest In Charlotte

CORNELIUS, NC — Two people were taken into custody this week and face a list of charges after they fled from police in Cornelius, leading officers on a circuitous chase through Davidson before driving into South Carolina. The pair were eventually apprehended in Charlotte, Cornelius Police Department said.

The April 22 incident began shortly before 5 p.m., when CPD received a call from a victim saying that a suspicious vehicle had followed them from the Rosedale Shopping Center in Huntersville.

The victim drove to the Cornelius Police Department and, along with the suspect vehicle, parked in front of the building. When officers responded to the vehicles to speak with both drivers, however, the suspect vehicle drove off, "nearly striking a Cornelius officer," CPD said in a statement.

Another CPD officer attempted to stop the suspect vehicle, but the driver refused to stop, "and a pursuit ensued," the police report said.

"The pursuit traveled from the Cornelius Police Department, briefly into Davidson, back into Cornelius and down [Interstate 77] south into South Carolina," CPD said. The chase ended at a business on Remount Road.

The two people inside the vehicle, who were identified as Marquis Lavontez Meaders, 30, and Erica Darlene Lewis, 32, were taken into custody.

Meaders was charged with felony assault on a law enforcement officer; felony flee to elude; reckless driving to endanger; possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Lewis was arrested on a Governor's warrant from Virginia for obtaining money under false pretense.