Galesburg Police in the early morning hours on Sunday, August 8th, responded to the 200 block of Lincoln Street for a noise complaint and a possible fight in progress. When officers arrived, they observed an unoccupied vehicle with expired registration illegally parked; and observed a handgun in the driver’s side door. When the driver departed in the vehicle, GPD initiated a traffic stop near the intersection of East Main and Allens Avenue. After officers made contact with the driver, 29-year old Paul Stingley of Galesburg, he sped away from the traffic stop at a high rate of speed down East Main. He was clocked at going 63 in a 30 mph zone. Stingley led officers from Main Street down Seminary onto Grove, then to Broad Street, and eventually, officers lost visual of the vehicle on Carl Sandburg Drive. Stingley disregarded numerous traffic control devices and was clocked at one point going 70 mph on North Broad. Officers received a report of the vehicle entering US Highway 34. Later on Sunday, about 15 hours later, the suspect’s vehicle was located in the 1700 block of West Carl Sandburg Drive. Stingley was taken into custody after he arrived in a different vehicle. He’s facing numerous traffic citations and a felony charge of aggravated fleeing and eluding.
