UPDATED: 10:27 a.m. EST November 19, 2002
MARION, Ohio -- Ohio Highway Patrol troopers are asking for the public's assistance in locating one of the FBI's most wanted suspects, who allegedly was involved in a police chase Monday night.
Troopers were involved in a pursuit with a suspect, who is believed to have escaped from a state prison in Kentucky.
According to FBI sources, the suspect is believed to be Chadrick Fulks, 25 (pictured, left), of Lewisburg, Ky., and is considered to be armed and dangerous.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, at 10:36 p.m. Monday, troopers observed a late model BMW with a West Virginia license plate parked in a Marion County rest stop along U.S. 23.
A check of the vehicle license plates revealed that the vehicle was stolen and possibly linked to two abductions that occurred on Nov. 5 and 14 in adjacent states.
Troopers attempted to stop the vehicle when it crossed the median and traveled southbound on U.S. 23. After a failed attempt with Stop Sticks, a tire-deflating device, officers lost sight of the vehicle.
Police said that the BMW received underbody damage and began losing fluids as it fled from the scene.
The car had West Virginia plates with the number 4DK302. It was unclear as to whether another person was inside the vehicle.
Police said that Fulks and Branden Basham escaped from a Kentucky jail earlier this month and have been on a cross-country crime spree, being linked to two abductions, the latest a 44-year-old South Carolina woman.
Basham was captured in Ashland, Ky., on Sunday, NewsChannel 4's Larry Roberts reported.
The escaped inmates also are suspects in the abduction of a Kentucky man as well as a burglary in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and numerous car thefts, police said.
"These guys have been hopscotching around the country in different stolen vehicles," said Horry County police Detective Todd Cox.
A videotape confirmed Alice Louise Donovan of Galivants Ferry was abducted Thursday from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, authorities said Sunday. She remains missing.
Basham and Fulks also are suspected of abducting James Hawkins, 42, of Hanson, Ky., taking him 40 miles north to Indiana and leaving him bound to a tree, authorities said. Hawkins struggled for hours before freeing himself and summoning help.
Basham, 21, and Fulks, 25, escaped Nov. 4. Basham was serving a five-year sentence for writing a bad check and Fulks was awaiting trial on robbery charges, authorities said.
As Donovan's family passed out fliers with her photo Sunday, police said her ATM card had been used in Little River and near Raleigh, N.C., late Thursday and Friday. Police don't know if she is being held captive.
"She could be tied to a tree, or she could be in the trunk of a car. We just don't know," Horry County police Detective Tony Collins said.
The abduction happened about 45 minutes after the inmates shot at a man who interrupted a burglary at his son's mobile home in rural Horry County, police said.
Hawkins, the man abducted in Kentucky, had bruises and scrapes on his wrists and legs, but was otherwise unhurt.
"He literally wrestled with the cord and tape for 14 hours," Vanderburgh County, Ind., sheriff's Maj. Tom Wallis said. "He kept moving to keep warm."
His truck was found in northern Indiana.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is requesting that if any information is known about the suspects or the incidents to call (877) 7-PATROL.