Stolen Car Chase: Man Bailed from Floodwaters

0:00It's April 29th. This is Kansas News today, your AI-powered local news. A 45-year-old Kansas City man named William Cook is facing serious charges after leading independence police on a wild, high-speed chase that ended with him getting pulled from floodwaters. It all kicked off around 11.30 pm. Monday, when officers tried to stop him near East 23rd Street, South and South Arlington Avenue, but he took off, hitting speeds up to 94 miles per hour, blowing through road close signs and knocking over traffic cones. The chase wrapped up in East Kansas City at 23rd Street and television place, where his car stalled out in a flooded spot, cooked bailed into a nearby flooded field and tried swimming away from cops until the Kansas City Fire Department's water rescue team fished him out. Turns out, the ride he was driving got reported stolen back in March from a local dealership, and this wasn't his first rodeo, he had another run-in. With independence police on January 27th, right now, Cook's locked up in Jackson County

1:02Detention Center on a $25,000 cash-only bond with no court date on the books yet, so we'll keep an eye on how this plays out.