Man charged in car chase at KC Super Bowl parade allegedly told police he was high
The driver who led police on a high-speed car chase down the parade route for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration Wednesday morning told officers the last thing he remembered was getting high, according to charging documents.
Addae Doyle, 41, was arrested at the end of the chase when police stopped his car near the south end of the parade route near Union Station. Jackson County prosecutors announced Thursday they charged him with resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.
Doyle allegedly sped up, reaching speeds of 60 mph while fleeing police down the nearly two-mile parade route. Preliminary toxicology results showed Doyle tested positive for amphetamines and cocaine, prosecutors said.
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The chase unfolded hours before the parade was to start, when a green Ford Taurus approached barricades at the north end of the parade route near Front Street and Riverfront Road shortly after 8 a.m.
Doyle allegedly failed to stop and knocked down several police barricades along Grand Boulevard.
A marked police car with lights and sirens activated immediately chased the Taurus as it entered the closed parade route at Fifth Street and Grand.
Doyle sped up, reaching 60 mph as he drove south on Grand Boulevard along the closed parade route, according to the charges. Doyle allegedly struck and knocked down multiple barricades.
There were multiple points along the parade route where pedestrians were allowed to cross Grand. Additional emergency vehicles followed the pursuit. Doyle refused to stop, prosecutors allege.
Officers along the route deployed stop sticks that deflated tires on the Taurus.
After traveling south down the length of the route, Doyle allegedly turned west on Pershing Road and toward a large crowd at Union Station.
Arrest
Police used a tactical maneuver to force the Taurus to stop. Officers immediately surrounded the Taurus and arrested Doyle, along with a woman.
Police said they found a clear plastic baggy inside the Taurus on the driver’s seat and that it contained a rock-like substance, according to the charges. Those items later tested positive for methamphetamine.
Doyle later told investigators that he didn’t remember or know what he was doing when he got arrested. The last thing Doyle said he remembered was getting high. Doyle refused to tell investigators which drugs he had taken because, he said, he didn’t remember.
Doyle also remembered being pulled out of the vehicle by police.
Court records show Doyle has faced criminal charges in multiple counties in the Kansas City area.
In Wyandotte County, he had been convicted three times previously of fleeing and eluding police. Those charges were filed in 2005, 2009 and 2016. He served time in prison for two of the cases.
In 2015, he was sentenced to a year in the Clay County jail after he pleaded guilty to first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle, according to court records. The next year in Johnson County, Kansas, he pleaded guilty to criminal deprivation of property and was sentenced to a year in jail.
This story was originally published February 6, 2020 at 8:45 AM.
