When GCSD showed up last week to arrest a man wanted on two warrants, he jumped out of a vehicle and took off running. He was taken into custody after a foot pursuit.

Adam Christopher Tibbett, 32, Springville, was arrested by Deputy James Carpenter of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department last Tuesday morning, November 23.

Tibbett was wanted on two warrants issued out of Monroe County. One was in a case involving resisting law enforcement – for allegedly fleeing from police, a Class A misdemeanor. The other warrant was issued in a case involving being a felon carrying a handgun – with prior felony conviction within the previous 15 years, a Level 5 felony, and possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony.

Tibbett also has another criminal case pending against him in Monroe County – but no warrant was active in this case, involving arson, a Level 4 felony, and burglary, a Level 5 felony.

Early Tuesday morning, November 23, Deputy Carpenter, Det. Shawn Cullison and Det. David Elmore, were on their way to a residence in the Blue Sky area, Springville, to serve the two warrants on Tibbett. Then when they saw a vehicle leave the residence, Deputy Carpenter got behind the vehicle and activiated the emergency lights to stop the vehicle.

The driver was a woman who complied with verbal commands to show her hands out the driver’s side window. Adam Tibbett was a passenger in the back seat.

When Det. Cullison walked up to the vehicle to get Tibbett out, Tibbett allegedly opened the door. When he was asked to get out, he refused and closed the door.

Deputy Carpenter reported that at that point, the driver floored the vehicle and the tires spun out. But she stopped the vehicle approximately 60 feet away and Tibbett opened the rear passenger door, got out and ran. The chase was on.

Det. Elmore took off after Tibbett on foot and followed him. The pursuit ended when Tibbett was taken into custody by Deputy Terry Wade.

Tibbett was booked into the Greene County Jail at 9:19 a.m. on the two warrants and on a new charge.

Tibbett is now facing a criminal case in Greene County on a charge of resisting law enforcement – knowingly or intentionally forcibly resisted, a Class A misdemeanor.

Since his arrest, he has been transferred to the Monroe County Jail where he was still in custody late Wednesday, December 1.