4/28/14 - After admitting to fleeing from officers and ramming a State Police car, a Howell man will serve time in prison. 37-year-old Brian Lynn Ellsworth was ordered last week to serve a variety of sentences after pleading guilty to charges of fleeing police, resisting police, felonious assault, malicious destruction of police property, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and driving on a suspended license. The longest of the sentences handed down was 30 months to six years in prison for the assault and malicious destruction of police property counts. He was given credit for 75 days already served in the Livingston County Jail. 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. Authorities say Ellsworth ignored the deputy, freed his truck from the snow bank, and fled east on M-59. He was later spotted by a state trooper in Oceola Township. The trooper attempted to stop Ellsworth but he again fled and hit another snow bank. He began ramming the trooperâs patrol car to try and get away, but the trooper managed to pin his truck into the snow bank. Authorities say backup arrived and helped take him into custody. (JK)
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