Crime & Safety
Blind Date Becomes Speed Dating for Tinley Park Man: Report
Samuel Messino, 26, was arrested on drunken driving, reckless driving, criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement charges, after he led Portage police on a motorcycle chase during a blind date, the Times of Northwest Indiana reports.
When a woman tells a man to slow down on a blind she usually doesn't mean it so literally.
But a Tinley Park man showed he was a fast mover Wednesday night when he and his 25-year-old companion riding on the back of his motorcycle as he led police on a brief chase in Portage, IN, according to the Times of Northwest Indiana.
By the Times' account, that chase turned the date into a wreck—again, meant literally—as the pair suffered minor injures after being thrown from the cycle.
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Samuel Messino, 26, of Tinley Park, faces drunken driving, reckless driving, criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement charges, as well as numerous traffic citations after fleeing police when they attempted to pull him over for speeding, the Times reported.
Messino and his passenger, a woman from Lowell, IN, were thrown from the motorcycle when Messino tried to get on I-94 to escape pursuit, the report stated. The woman was treated at the scene for cuts and scrapes to her right elbow, forearm and palm but refused further treatment, the report added.Messino suffered cuts and scrapes his right leg and bicep and was taken to a Portage hospital, where he refused a test to determine if he was intoxicated, according to the Times. Police then were issued a warrant to draw blood for a toxicology test, the report added.
The woman told police she was on a "blind date" with Messino, the report stated.
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