Wild Vehicle Pursuit Leaves 2 Orange County Sheriff's Cars Damaged, 2 Charged for Drug Possession

A cross-county vehicle pursuit on Wednesday afternoon resulted in two Durham residents facing several felony changes, as well as a pair of damaged Orange County Sheriff’s vehicles and Alamance County properties.

A release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Thursday said 50-year-old Barry Bradley and 42-year-old Heather Stallings are in custody after failing to stop for sheriff’s deputies and North Carolina State Highway Patrol troopers during a chase that started around 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hillsborough. Following a larceny at the Dollar General at South Churton Street — which deputies later learned of — Bradley was driving a black Hyundai Sonata and crossed the double yellow line on the road. After trying unsuccessfully to stop the car for that traffic violation and others seen while driving south on Interstate 85, deputies alerting the Highway Patrol — which successfully deployed stop sticks on the Sonata as it entered Alamance County.

From there, Bradley exited I-85 and drove onto Highway 87 South, with law enforcement saying he rammed into two Orange County patrol cars and severely damaged them. The driver eventually steered through “several yards and fences before turning onto a dead-end road and becoming stuck behind a residence and a business,” according to Thursday’s release.

The report from the sheriff’s office said as a deputy approach the vehicle to arrest Bradley and Stallings — who was a passenger — he saw Bradley smoking a glass pipe. After handcuffing the pair and searching the vehicle, law enforcement found cocaine residue in two glass pipes, a broken phone, two pills, and several items that appeared to be from Dollar General. During their interaction with Bradley, a drug recognition expert reported the Durham man exhibiting “clinical indicators of being impaired by a central nervous system stimulant.”

Following a trip to the local magistrate, Bradley faces felony charges of fleeing to elude arrest with a motor vehicle, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, second degree kidnapping, and three counts of damage to property. He also faces misdemeanor charges for reckless driving to endanger, reckless driving with wanton disregard for the rights or safety of others, speeding, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while impaired, open container of alcohol, driving while license revoked, and three traffic infractions.

Stallings, meanwhile, faces charges for felony possession of a schedule II-controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. While she was also served by the magistrate with “multiple charges from nearby counties,” Thursday’s release said both Stallings and Bradley testified to law enforcement that Stallings asked multiple times to be let out of the vehicle during the chase — resulting in fewer charges than Bradley.

Both Stallings and Bradley remained at the Orange County Detention Center where they are being held without bond under the Pretrial Integrity Act

The chase comes just a few days after another dramatic car chase from Hillsborough to Alamance County, which saw Orange County Sheriff’s deputies chase a U-Haul moving truck that would not stop after a hit-and-run in Hillsborough. The vehicle was eventually slowed after several stop strip deployments and the driver, a Virginia man, was arrested for driving while impaired among other charges.

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Wild Vehicle Pursuit Leaves 2 Orange County Sheriff’s Cars Damaged, 2 Charged for Drug Possession

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