Charges are pending against a Mount Vernon man whom police say threatened officers trying to help him after he crashed his pickup truck Thursday near Rend Lake.
Michael Glenn Craddock, 60, is accused of threatening to shoot officers and other emergency personnel who responded to the single-vehicle crash on Illinois 154 near the turn off to the Rend Lake Golf Course at 1:30 p.m., Illinois State Police District 13 spokesman David Sneed said.
Craddock was traveling eastbound on Illinois 54 when, witnesses said, he turned on his right turn signal. Although there was no road to the right, Craddock made the right turn and crashed when his vehicle went down an embankment toward the lake.
When police and emergency personnel responded to the crash, he allegedly threatened to shoot them, Sneed said.
Police were able to subdue Craddock and he was taken to Franklin Hospital in Benton for treatment and later airlifted to a St. Louis-area hospital.
A gun was found inside the vehicle, along with evidence of alcohol and drugs, Sneed said. - http://bit.ly/HPKIEj
