Driver With Insulting Bumper Sticker Charged In Connection With Willington Wrong-Way Driving Incident

WILLINGTON, CT — An arrest has been made in a dangerous highway incident in Willington, according to state police.

A Manchester man with an improper plate and insulting bumper sticker has been charged in a reckless wrong-way attempt to goad state police into a high-speed chase, according to a warrant.

On March 14 at 10:55 a .m., a trooper was patrolling Interstate 84 westbound near Exit 71 and observed a gray Toyota Corolla in the left-hand lane with an illegal window tint, along with a tinted front plate cover that made it impossible to read, according to a warrant.

The trooper was able to read the rear plate, but the plate came over a database as "canceled" and "destroyed," according to a warrant.

The car has a bumper sticker on it that read "only g-- cops pull me over," according to a warrant.

The Corolla was going 75 mph, and the trooper initiated a traffic stop, and the Corolla began swerving and accelerating to 99 mph, according to a warrant.

As the trooper attempted to box in the Corolla, the driver swerved and executed a K-turn and began heading east while still on the westbound side of the highway, according to a warrant.

Troopers then lost track of the car, according to a warrant.

Manchester police knew the Corolla from a stop about a week earlier and two previous stops over the winter, according to a warrant.

State police and Manchester police eventually tracked down the driver's address through a database and a visit to his home, and a warrant was secured, state police said.

It was served out of Troop C on Saturday.

The warrant charged Tannell Destry Azairias Webber, 19, with the improper use of a marker plate, violating plate regulations, reckless driving, disobeying the signal of an officer, engaging police in a pursuit, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, unsafe backing, making an improper turn, a windshield view obstruction, and first-degree reckless endangerment.