An Ozark County man has been arrested after abandoning his vehicle and attempting to flee from police.
According to the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, on Feb. 3, authorities witnessed a vehicle traveling east on U.S. 160 near Spring Creek. They recognized the driver as Aaron Perry, who has a revoked driver’s license. As authorities turned their patrol truck around to conduct a traffic stop, Perry passed a vehicle on a curve and sped away to evade the deputies.
Deputies then attempted to locate Perry and a few minutes later located his vehicle, abandoned, on a steep driveway near a residence. The owner of the house did not recognize Perry and had not seen him after he abandoned the vehicle in front of the residence.
A brief search was conducted for Perry, but ended once his shoe impressions in the snow disappeared into nearby woods. Perry’s vehicle was then towed from the property and a firearm was located inside the vehicle.
Perry is a convicted felon and therefore prohibited by law from possessing a firearm. The following morning, authorities returned to the area and located Perry’s shoe impressions in the snow on a nearby dirt road where he was last seen. Officials followed the footprints back to Perry’s house, roughly five miles away, and arrested him without further incident.
Perry was booked into the Ozark County jail for a felony count of driving with a revoked license, being a felon in possession of a firearm and felony fleeing.
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