Man accused of leading police on chase last year, now wanted on car jacking charges

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A man accused of leading police on a chase last year and crashing a truck with an infant in the backseat, is now accused of a car jacking.

Taron Wells, 25, of Bowling Green, is wanted on charges of second-degree robbery, trafficking marijuana eight ounces to less than five pounds second offense and leaving the scene of an accident in an Tuesday afternoon incident.

At 12:36 p.m. Tuesday, Wells was driving a car when that car collided with another at the intersection of Rhodes Drive and Loving Way, according to his arrest citation.

He is accused of getting into a fight with a witness, using force to steal the witness’s vehicle and driving away from the scene. After the crash, police found two and a half pounds of suspected marijuana in the original car Wells had been driving.

Wells was out on bond in Warren Circuit Court where he is charged with trafficking marijuana, fleeing or evading police, first-degree wanton endangerment of a police officer, first-degree wanton endangerment, resisting arrest, reckless driving, disregarding a stop sign and persistent felony offender.

In that case, Wells is accused of taking possession of a package that contained about 14 pounds of suspected marijuana and 396 THC vaping cartridges May 1, 2019 from a home on Nathans Rim Way.

Detectives and uniformed officers saw Wells place the package in a truck. They approached and Wells drove off through a landscaped area and back to the road where police said he struck a Homeland Security agent’s vehicle, according to his arrest citation. He continued driving through residential yards until he crashed his truck. He had an infant in the truck at the time of the crash, according to the citation. The infant was not injured.

A hearing in that case is scheduled next month.