DUNEDIN — A driver accused of fleeing from a Pinellas deputy, crashing into two cars and then getting away on foot last week was arrested Wednesday. He was the third person arrested by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in connection with the incident.
Kirk Ryan Mayberry, 22, of Holiday, was arrested on two counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving injury, leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage, resisting an officer with violence, fleeing and eluding, being a felon in possession of a firearm and being an accessory after the fact to a crime.
According to the Sheriff's Office, the incident started at about 10:08 p.m. Nov. 6. Mayberry was speeding eastbound on Causeway Boulevard in a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria with two female passengers. A Pinellas deputy tried to pull Mayberry over for speeding, the Sheriff's Office said, but instead he sped away on Causeway. The deputy did not engage in a high-speed pursuit, the agency said.
Mayberry was still speeding east on Causeway when he reached the Alternate 19 intersection. There, the Crown Victoria struck a southbound 2005 Nissan Murano on Alt. 19, deputies said. Mayberry's vehicle then struck second vehicle at that intersection, the Jolley Trolley, a 2014 Freightliner bus.
The Crown Victoria kept on going, deputies said, headed south on Alt. 19. Finally, deputies said he abandoned the car near Palm Boulevard and ran away.
That's where deputies said they found two women: Sophia Hill, 24, and Kendyll Jacobs, 21. The Crown Victoria was registered to Hill, deputies said. Both women were "untruthful" about being passengers in the vehicle. Police dogs could not find the driver.
Hill was treated for minor injuries at a hospital, then arrested on misdemeanor charges of making a false report to law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence.
Jacobs was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of being an accessory after the fact to a crime and a felony count of resisting an officer without violence.
Both have since been freed from jail. That's where Mayberry was on Wednesday.
Mayberry, of 1533 Albert St. in Holiday, was arrested Wednesday without incident at a Clearwater construction site. He was being held in the Pinellas County jail late Wednesday in lieu of $61,000.
No major injuries were reported in the vehicles that were struck Nov. 6. The driver of the Murano and two children onboard were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. The driver and four passengers aboard the Jolley Trolley were not injured.