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Kemah Police Chase Suspect into Bacliff, Saturday Night

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BACLIFF – A driver is in custody, after leading Kemah Police on a chase into Baycliff Saturday evening.

According to Kemah Police Chief Raymond Garivey, it happened around 7:30pm, after police received a call of reckless driving on sixth street in Kemah.

Officers located the suspect’s vehicle heading southbound, in the fourteen hundred block of highway one forty six.

The suspect eventually stopped at the intersection of Miles and Charles in Bacliff, where officers took him into custody.

The suspect was charged with felony evading and driving while intoxicated.

The suspect was later identified as Leonardo Martinez, 58 years old.

He was transported to the Galveston County Jail.

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