HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – One of two men involved in a high-speed police chase on Holland’s East Side during the morning commute earlier this month is still at large.
Public Safety detectives say that they have some leads on the missing man, but two weeks after the incident, the suspect is still not in custody. Officers were dispatched to the area of East 16th Street and Country Club Road on a report of a weapon being brandished inside of a pickup truck. One responding officer spotted the vehicle in question going westbound on 32nd Street near US-31 and attempted to pull it over. The truck sped off instead and started going towards the downtown district at speeds that reached over 70 miles per hour.
In the vicinity of Hastings Avenue and 24th Street, a 36-year-old Holland woman jumped out of the moving vehicle, telling officers later that she “didn’t want to be part of what was going on.” She suffered bumps and bruises. The truck eventually crashed upon entering a construction zone on East 14th Street at Central Avenue, and two men jumped out. The driver, 18-year-old Cody Simmons of Holland, was captured a couple of blocks away, but the other passenger eluded officers, and a canine unit’s effort to track him down was unsuccessful. That passenger is described as a white male in his early 20’s with a white shirt, khaki shorts and a red hat.
Simmons remains held on various charges in the Ottawa County Jail on 10 thousand dollars bond.
The case remains under investigation, and anyone with any information is asked to contact Holland Public Safety or Silent Observer.
