A 25-year-old Oklahoma City man has been arrested in Garvin County where he faces charges after a pursuit that began in the wee hours of Christmas morning in McClain County.

Devin Chance Yandell was charged last week in Garvin County District Court on charges of attempting to elude an officer and aggravated trafficking of illegal drugs.

He was being held in the Garvin County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

According to a report from the McClain County Sheriff’s Department, a McClain County Deputy was responding to a prowler call in Goldsby just after 4 a.m. Christmas morning.

That’s when the deputy observed a white van leaving the area and heading southbound on Interstate 35.

Garvin County officers were notified McClain County was in pursuit of the van which had exited off the interstate onto SH 74 headed toward Maysville.

The report said officers used stop sticks to cut off the van on 74 near the Washita River.

However, the pursuit didn’t end there.

Officers couldn’t locate the suspect, who had fled into a wooded area along the river bottom on foot, despite the use of a K9 and drones.

Later, a resident on the north side of Maysville reported a man matching the suspect’s description had asked for gasoline before heading south into town.

Although the resident noted the man was covered in mud he was riding a red all-terrain vehicle that had no mud on it, which he found suspicious.

Turns out the all-terrain vehicle he was riding and the van were both stolen.

A Garvin County Deputy located Yandell exiting a convenience store at the intersection of SH 74 and SH 19. The all-terrain vehicle was also found at the Maysville convenience store.

Deputies reported finding about 30 grams of pills in the stolen van, suspected to be fentanyl.