Alvin Donell Davis
Chattanooga Police Officer Giuseppe Troncone didn’t try to follow a 49-year-old man who tried to escape by driving his Cadillac on railroad tracks in the Pineville area, according to an affidavit filed in Hamilton County Criminal Sessions Court.
Instead, he soon caught up with Alvin Donell Davis just by driving along East Elmwood Drive toward the “cloud of smoke coming from the direction” the fleeing vehicle had taken, court documents show.
A short drive later, Officer Troncone reported, he saw the Cadillac on the train tracks near 900 East Elmwood where it had wrecked, and a man later identified as Davis running on the tracks toward a wooded area.
“(Davis) continued to run from me until he got into the woods, where he laid down to hide,” the officer reported. “I yelled out verbal commands for him to exit the woods and to keep his hands where I could see them, and he complied.”
The CPD officer said he then walked Davis to his patrol vehicle, searched him and placed him in custody.
Davis faces a variety of charges, including DUI, driving on a revoked license and evading arrest, as a result of the incident.
Further, he is scheduled to appear for an arraignment hearing on June 12 before Criminal Court Judge Don Poole on 10 charges to which he pleaded guilty in 2013 and was subsequently placed on probation. Those charges, all incurred on Aug. 17, 2011, range from drug possession and criminal impersonation to assault and evading arrest.