Campbellsville Man Faces Kidnapping Charges After High Speed Chase
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Robert Moore
Herald Staff
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A Campbellsville man is facing charges of kidnapping, resisting arrest and driving under the influence after an incident on Sunday, Oct. 6.
At approximately 3:30 a.m., Bluegrass 911 received a phone call from a woman who complained that the male driver would not let her out of the vehicle. Officers with the Harrodsburg Police Department were dispatched to the area of Perryville Road and Mooreland Avenue, where they located a black 2013 Ford F150. According to the uniform citation, the truck sped off when police arrived, heading south on College Street at “a high rate of speed.”
The truck ran the red light on Danville Road and the U.S. 127 Bypass and sped into Boyle County. According to the uniform citation, the woman continued to yell for the driver, subsequently identified as Christiaan S. Cato, 49, of Campbellsville, to stop.
Cato ran another red light at the intersection of the U.S. 2168 Bypass and U.S. 127, according to the uniform citation, before finally coming to a stop at Davco Drive in Boyle County.
Cato did not comply with officers’ commands to get out of the truck, according to the uniform citation. Police tased Cato, who was then taken to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center for treatment.
According to the uniform citation, the woman said she had been on a date with Cato in Marion County when he began drinking. She told police the only reason he stopped “was because the truck ran out of gas.”
Police say they found “two tall cans of peach-flavored alcohol,” according to the uniform citation. Inside the door handle police located a plastic bag containing a “crystal-like substance” which they believe to be “consistent with methamphetamine.”
Cato was arrested and charged with kidnapping an adult, reckless driving, 1st degree fleeing or evading police, resisting arrest, 3rd degree assault of a police or probation officer, 1st degree wanton endangerment, disregarding a traffic light, driving under the influence and 1st degree possession of methamphetamine. He is being held at Boyle County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.
