Cindy Dean, employee at Pioneer Market in Ewing, said she came in to work Sunday morning on what started to be a regular day. She was soon in the company of two young girls, who were asking her for money.
Dean said she kept talking to the two girls, who originally told her they were going to Pennsylvania to see their ill father. Finally, she asked them if they were run-aways and they confessed.
"I kept talking to them, they were asking me for gas or money and I told them I couldn't give them any gas but I could feed them," said Dean, who is a mother herself of two children. "I was worried to death, as a parent myself, I told the two girls that they could get hurt."
Dean said the girls had enough change to buy $5 worth of gas. Once they started to drive off, she wrote down their license plate number and called the law.
The girls, ages 14 and 16, are originally from Henryetta, OK. Deputies Keith Marcum and Lt. James Ely spotted the 1999 Nissan Maxima the two juveniles were driving on Highway 58, just west of Jonesville a little after 8 a.m..
When officers tried to initiate a stop, the car sped away and officers lost sight of it. Around 15 minutes later, Deputy Doug Parsons spotted the vehicle on route 657 near Russell Chapel Church. The deputy also attempted to stop the vehicle. During the chase, the driver made a turn onto Sugar Run road, attempting to elude the police.
The two girls only made it a little over a mile before losing control in a curve. Officers said the car skidded off the road to the left, tore through a fence, went up an embankment and struck a tree and several rocks.
Both girls were taken to Lee Regional Medical Center, where they were treated for minor injuries and released. The driver was charged with reckless driving, attempting to elude pursuit, and felony to stop for an officer.
Both girls are being held in the detention center in Bristol, Tenn.
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