Man in car chase at Kansas City Super Bowl parade had history of fleeing police
A man police arrested Wednesday after he led police on a car chase down the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade route had been convicted three times previously for fleeing police, court records show.
Addae J. Doyle, 42, had been charged in 2005, 2009 and 2016 in Wyandotte County with attempting to flee and elude law enforcement. He spent time in prison for two of those cases, according to state records.
The car chase Wednesday unfolded hours before the parade was to start, as thousands of people gathered downtown for the celebration. Police had blocked off Grand Boulevard along the nearly two-mile route from the starting point near Sixth Street and Grand in the north to the area of Union Station in the south.
About 8 a.m., Doyle, of Kansas City, Kansas, drove a car through barriers near the starting point of the parade and led police in a chase south on Grand until officers stopped his car near Pershing Road and Grand.
According to charging documents, he told police the last thing he remembered was getting high.
Jackson County prosecutors charged him with resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.
Previous cases
In the 2005 fleeing and eluding case, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 months in prison, according to Wyandotte County District Court records. The sentenced was ordered to be served concurrent with a Missouri prison sentence.
In 2009, prosecutors again charged him with fleeing police. He was sentenced to a year in prison, according to court documents.
In 2016, Doyle was charged a third time with fleeing from police and with theft. A jury found him guilty of eluding police, court documents say, but not guilty of theft. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
This story was originally published February 6, 2020 at 1:25 PM.
