BOARDMAN — A local man is due in court today after a domestic incident resulted in a high-speed chase and a crash that caused a power outage.

Patrick Prokop, 46, of Red Fox Court in Boardman, is due in Mahoning County Boardman Court today on a third-degree felony charge of fleeing police, and misdemeanor charges of OVI and failure to control.

Prokop was arrested late Friday after police responded to a call at his mother-in-law’s house on Gardenwood Place, where his estranged wife was staying with their child.

According to the police report, the woman told police she is filing for divorce — which court records show she did on Monday — and that Prokop, whom she said is an alcoholic, was stalking her and her daughter.

The report states the woman warned police as they were en route that Prokop was sitting in his vehicle on Gardenwood, may have had at least six firearms in the car with him, and had texted her: “Please send the cops, I’m waiting for them. Let’s do this.”

She said she believed he intended to commit suidice-by-cop.

The woman told police she had left their home that day after she discovered a tracking device she said Prokop put in her car. She said he repeatedly texted her during the day, then showed up at the Gardenwood home and walked in uninvited before being forced to leave.

The report states that when she called police, Prokop was looking in the window of the home.

Prokop left when police got there. Police thought they spotted his vehicle in the Boardman High School parking lot, but then they received a call from their colleagues at the residence that Prokop had pulled up while they were speaking to his wife, then drove away and officers had begun to follow him down Hitchcock Road.

The report states police saw him turn off Hitchcock onto Squirrel Hill Drive at a high rate of speed. Moments later, they found Prokop’s vehicle crashed in a yard on Squirrel Hill.

In the process of the crash, he damaged a mailbox and completely knocked a power box out of the ground, causing a power outage for dozens homes in the neighborhood.

The report states police found Prokop exiting the vehicle, putting his hands up. It states that he was very disoriented and stumbling as they directed him away from the crash and toward police cruisers.

The report states Prokop repeatedly apologized for leading police on a chase, which spanned at least six miles, but that officers observed him to show no regard for others’ safety during the pursuit. The report states that police were within 100 yards of him at one point, but he accelerated to a very high speed, eventually exceeding 100 mph and dodging other vehicles on the road.

The report states Prokop told police there may be a loaded .380 handgun in the vehicle, but no firearms were found. Police did find a large collection of knives, hatchets, throwing stars, firearm accessories, and live ammunition rounds and spent casings.

The report states Prokop was visibly intoxicated and police found two empty cans of beer in the car. It says that Prokop refused OVI tests and started to become combative with police at the station. He sustained mild injuries from the crash, but was medically cleared at a local hospital and has been in Mahoning County Jail since.

Prokop’s court record shows a lengthy history of low-grade traffic misdemeanors dating back to 1996, including speeding and running red-lights, and most recently, in 2018, he pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to control.

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