You can’t outrun a radio.

A Bradford man was jailed Saturday in New York state after
taking local police and Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s deputies on a
high-speed pursuit starting in the Foster Brook Wal-Mart parking
lot and ending in Carrollton, N.Y.

Charles R. Vaughn, 52, of 30 Tuna Ave., Bradford, was
apprehended by deputies at 1:20 p.m. as his vehicle was traveling
on U.S. Route 219 in the Town of Carrollton, according to the
Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s office.

Foster Township Police officer Mike Thomas said Sunday he
spotted Vaughn near Wal-Mart early on Saturday and tried to take
him into custody to be arraigned on misdemeanor stalking
charges.

Police were having difficulty locating him to serve the official
notification, Thomas said.

Thomas said he immediately called for back-up when he saw Vaughn
and waited for the other officers to arrive, but was forced to
approach Vaughn when he saw him entering his vehicle to leave.
Thomas said he blocked Vaughn’s vehicle with his patrol car and
turned his lights on.

When Thomas approached Vaughn’s vehicle, he said Vaughn asked
him “What do you guys want now?”

Thomas said he told Vaughn he needed him to get out of his
vehicle, to which Vaughn replied “I don’t think so,” put his car in
reverse, gunned the accelerator and backed into a Toyota Tacoma,
causing significant damage to the truck. The pursuit, which
eventually involved the Bradford City Police, the Foster Township
Police and the Cattaraugus County deputies, started at that point
in the parking lot, Thomas said.

He said Vaughn’s driving was extremely erratic during the chase,
his vehicle reaching speeds around 80 mph on Seaward Avenue, for
example.

“He was driving like a man possessed,” Thomas said, adding it
was the most dangerous chase he’s been involved in.

“He had no regard for anyone or anything,” he said. “It was
getting out of hand.” Thomas said Vaughn even drove his vehicle
onto the berm on Route 219 to go around two Bradford City Police
cruisers to elude arrest.

Thomas and the officers assisting him had to back off as
Vaughn’s vehicle entered New York state, Thomas said, citing
Vaughn’s recklessness.

They notified the Cattaraugus County deputies, however, and
Vaughn’s vehicle was eventually stopped by the deputies at some
point later in the day as Vaughn returned to Bradford.

He is currently being held in the Cattaraugus County Jail in
Little Valley, N.Y., and is being charged as a fugitive of justice,
Thomas said. His charges there will be processed before he can be
extradited back to Pennsylvania to faces charges here.

It was unclear exactly what charges Vaughn will face in McKean
County as a result of the incident Saturday.