Reiner Hunziker
A man on a four-wheeler led police on a wild chase up and down Lookout Mountain's Scenic Highway.
A city police officer said he was going up the mountain when he noticed a man riding on a red four-wheeler without wearing a helmet.
He said he activated his flashing lights and pulled over and motioned for the man to stop. But he sped past him. The man was later stalled behind a slow car going up the mountain, but he darted around it on a blind curve.
The city officer radioed Lookout Mountain Police, who watched for the four-wheeler at the mountaintop. When the man spotted the Lookout officers, he did a U-turn and started back down.
The city officer said he then saw the four-wheeler speed by him with the Lookout Police in hot pursuit.
The four-wheeler hit a logjam at busy Ruby Falls and turned back up the mountain. At one point he was in the same lane as the city officer and headed straight for him.
Then he veered into the Ruby Falls parking lot at a high rate of speed.
Police lost him, but found a trailer that apparently was used by him at a trailhead for Gulid Trail.
A jogger told officers that he was on Guild Trailer when the four-wheeler ran him off the trail. Four wheelers are banned from the Guild Trail.
Police said the trailer was traced to Jake Hunziker. The city officer obtained a photo of his brother, Reiner H. Hunziker, and identified him as the man on the four-wheeler.
Police issued warrants for him for reckless endangerment, evading arrest, unlawful operation of a four-wheeler on a highway, a registration violation and violation of the helmet law.