2/19/14 - A Howell man has been bound over for trial on charges of fleeing from police and ramming a State Police patrol car. Brian Lynn Ellsworth was charged earlier this month with felonious assault, resisting police, malicious destruction of police property, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and driving with a suspended license. He was bound over to circuit court this week and has waived his arraignment there. A trial date has not yet been set. Ellsworth was arrested February 8th after fleeing from Livingston County Sheriffâs deputies who had stopped to check on his pickup truck, which was stuck in a snow bank on M-59 near Burkhart Road in Howell Township. Ellsworth is alleged to have ignored the deputyâs questions, freed his truck from the snow bank, and fled east on M-59. He was later spotted by a state trooper near the intersection of Fisher and Curdy roads in Oceola Township. The trooper attempted to stop Ellsworth, who backed his pickup truck up to try and get away. He hit another snow bank and began ramming the trooperâs patrol car to get away, but the trooper managed to pin his truck into the snow bank. Authorities say Ellsworth continued to resist efforts to take him into custody until backup help arrived and helped subdue him. (TD)
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