At about 4:35 a.m. Sunday a driver who refused to stop for a Syracuse Police Officer caused a pursuit that ended with a female being flown to a Fort Wayne hospital.

Syracuse Police Chief Tony Ciriello said that one of his officers attempted to stop a speeding vehicle on West Chicago Street near Sycamore Street just after 4:30 a.m. The driver of the vehicle refused to stop and a pursuit ensued that traveled north through Syracuse, then back south on Syracuse Webster Road.

At the intersection of Bowser Road and Syracuse Webster Road, an area known as Crazy Corners, the vehicle left the roadway and went into a field where it crashed into trees at the south end of the field. After the crash, two male subjects fled the scene on foot, leaving behind an unconscious female who was is in the back seat of the car. Pamela Howze, 35, of Buchanan, Mich., was flown to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne for treatment of injuries and alcohol intoxication. Her injuries were not known to be life threatening.

A search for the two male subjects turned up nothing, but during the investigation officers were able to identify both male subjects who fled. Kyle L. Miller, 25, of 409 N. Main St., Syracuse, was located near his residence trying to get back home. The other subject, Donald L. Combs, 40, of Syracuse, was located hiding in the closet of an apartment on Lynwood Avenue in Syracuse.

Both of the males were taken into custody without further incident. Neither of the males was injured in the vehicle crash.

Combs was transported to the Kosciusko County Jail and charged with being a habitual traffic offender for life, a class D felony, and fleeing from law enforcement with a vehicle as a class D felony, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, also a class D felony.

Kyle L. Miller was charged with Fleeing Law Enforcement as a Class “A” Misdemeanor.

Syracuse Police were assisted by the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, Winona Lake Police K-9 and the Kosciusko County Prosecutors Office. The investigation is still on going at this time.