CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Texas man who led Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police on a chase across town two years ago is back behind bars.
Officers arrested Tyler Harding over the weekend. He's accused of possessing a stolen motor vehicle, eluding arrest, resisting an officer by fleeing both in a vehicle and on foot, and breaking or entering.
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Harding was recently released from jail after pleading guilty to the 2022 police chase, which ended in a violent crash in South End.
Harding, then 26, led police on a chase that lasted about two hours back in 2022. He was accused of stealing a total of four cars during the spree. His sister, Christa Brooke Harding, also faced a charge for her involvement. He pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run inflicting injury, felony fleeing to elude, larceny of a motor vehicle, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, felony breaking and entering, breaking and entering a motor vehicle and felony larceny.
The 2022 chase, which started in west Charlotte as a reported break-in according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, went as far north as I-77 and Sunset Road and even across the state line into Lancaster County, South Carolina.
Harding and his sister were both from the town of Elgin, Texas, located about 26 miles east of the state capital of Austin. Police noted Harding was new to the area and had a criminal history from Texas. He still had pending charges against him in the Lone Star State, but did not accept extradition back.