Truck Thief Loses License for Life
TORONTO -— The man who led police on a wild truck chase in late October has been banned from driving for life.
According to several media sources, Jason Meadus, 40, was driving a flatbed that had been stolen in Niagara Falls when he led cops up and down the 401 and the Queen Elizabeth Way for almost six hours.
In marked similarity to the famous 1994 OJ Simpson chase, most of the chase was caught on video camera and people across the region glued to their computers in suspense and it came to an anti-climactic end near St. Catharines when the driver pulled over and gave himself up to police.
Meadus originally faced nine charges but pleaded guilty to five, including failure to stop for police and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.
The tractor-trailer unit had a load of wafer board on it when it was stolen and had already been off-loaded by the time the chase started.
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