SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Charges have now been filed against the man who allegedly led police on an hour-long chase Wednesday night, tying up traffic on Interstate 81.
Syracuse Police say they first tried to pull over 43-year-old John Besaw around 8 p.m., after an officer spotted him driving an SUV that had just been reported stolen.
Besaw refused to stop and took off down I-81 South.
Air One was called in and tracked the suspect as he drove out to Cortland County and eventually returned to Syracuse where police deployed stop-sticks.
The vehicle was found abandoned on the 200 block of Wall Street.
Besaw was eventually located inside a home on Richmond Avenue. Police say he fought them as he was taken into custody.
He is now being charged with more than half a dozen crimes, including grand larceny, fleeing of a police officer, reckless endangerment, and aggravated unlicensed operation.