TALLMADGE, Ohio (AP) - Police say a fugitive from Tampa, Florida, chewed off his fingertips in an attempt to avoid being identified by fingerprints during a traffic stop in northeast Ohio.
Twenty-four-year-old Kirk Kelly was jailed on felony counts of evidence tampering and obstructing official business and misdemeanor charges of falsification and resisting arrest. A message was left for his listed attorney after business hours Friday.
Police in Tallmadge, near Akron, say Kelly and several other people were put into a cruiser without handcuffs after their vehicle was stopped last weekend and officers thought they smelled drugs.
Police say Kelly gave false names as they tried to identify him. They figured out who he was after photos of his tattoos were provided by police in Florida, where he's wanted on firearms and drug charges.