A federal court recently sentenced a man who shot at a state trooper while driving in Orange County to 30 years in prison.

Judge William L. Osteen Jr. of the United State District Court in Greensboro, North Carolina, sentenced Tyler Lloyd Grantz, 21, on Friday. Grantz was convicted on four felony gun and drugs charges in February for an incident in early 2019.

Grantz will serve 240 months for three of the charges concurrently before serving 120 months for the fourth charge.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office shared detailed evidence of the incident at Grantz’s trial in February. Around 2 a.m. on March 5, 2019, a North Carolina state trooper saw Grantz driving at more than 100 mph on Interstate 40. Once the officer gave chase, Grantz fired multiple rounds from a handgun and struck the patrol vehicle’s radiator. He then crashed his vehicle, fired multiple rounds from a rifle and escaped into woods near the New Hope Church Road exit in Orange County.

Orange County Sheriff’s Office began a manhunt shortly after and assisted other agencies in arresting Grantz around 11:30 a.m.

Authorities later discovered Grantz stole the vehicle and handgun he used, while also finding him in possession of distribution amounts of cocaine hydrochloride and oxycodone.

Grantz has been held at the Orange County Detention Center since his arrest, where he was kept under a $2 million secured bond.

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