DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office
An elderly man is facing charges for allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase, causing multiple hit-and-run crashes, after they attempted a traffic stop over expired registration.
The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said the court granted prosecutors’ motion for pre-trial detention of 73-year-old Thomas Philip of Woodridge on four felony counts of aggravated fleeing or eluding a police officer, one misdemeanor count of driving without a valid driver’s license and one count of misdemeanor operating an uninsured motor vehicle.
According to prosecutors, Bensenville Police officers attempted to stop a gold Lexus sedan for expired registration near the 400 block of W. Irving Park Road at around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. The driver of the Lexus, later identified as Philip, allegedly fled “at a high rate of speed.”…