HILLSDALE — An Adrian man who was pursued twice by means of Hillsdale County in mid-August appeared within the 2B District Courtroom Wednesday morning for sentencing on one case.
Kyle David Eichler, 22, charged with unlawfully driving away an car, pleaded responsible to a lesser crime of tried unlawfully driving away an car in an earlier court docket listening to.
For this crime, he was sentenced to time served and Decide Sara S. Lisznyai waived fines and prices within the issues.
Eichler will stay in custody, nevertheless, pending different hearings within the 1st Judicial Circuit Courtroom the place he’s scheduled for jury trial Feb. 2, 2021. Within the circuit court docket, Eichler is charged with reckless driving, driving with out insurance coverage, failure to report a property harm accident and two counts of resisting/obstructing a police officer — routine offender — second offense.
Along with that trial, Eichler is going through separate court docket proceedings for 3 separate court docket information on Jan. 11, 2021 within the circuit court docket. In these information, Eichler has been charged with third-degree fleeing/eluding police, first-degree house invasion and absconding whereas on bond.
Within the first fleeing/eluding incident, troopers with the Michigan State Police tried to cease Eichler’s 1993 Cadillac Eldorado for visitors violations. Eichler took off at a high-rate of velocity by means of Hillsdale and was in a position to elude officers as MSP pursuit insurance policies prohibit troopers’ capacity to pursue offenders who flee from visitors stops except sure standards is met.
Days later, after pictures of Eichler’s car had been launched by the MSP to the general public for help in figuring out the driving force, a tipster reported seeing the car at Backyard Flats within the metropolis.
This time, Sgt. Ron Leggit, the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s patrol sergeant on obligation, was within the space and gave pursuit—with help from the Hillsdale Metropolis Police Division—south out of Hillsdale and into Ohio.
Ohio authorities then picked up the pursuit into Indiana and Eichler was inevitably stopped when Indiana authorities had been in a position to deploy cease sticks inflicting him to crash a brief distance later in Angola, Indiana.
Eichler was lodged on the Steuben County Jail on expenses of resisting regulation enforcement, degree 6 felony; resisting regulation enforcement, misdemeanor; reckless driving, misdemeanor; main the scene of a private damage crash, misdemeanor; and failure to determine to a police officer, misdemeanor.
Eichler, on the time, additionally had excellent fugitive warrants out of Michigan.
The Michigan Division of Corrections Offender Monitoring Info System signifies Eichler is a probation absconder as of Aug. 13 and was on felony probation for felonious assault out of Lenawee County.
Days after his arrest in Indiana, Eichler was extradited to Michigan to reply to expenses stemming from each incidents which originated out of Hillsdale County.
