High-speed police chase ends with backyard crash, man's arrest

A 25-year-old Will County man has been charged with fleeing from Lisle police early Tuesday before crashing his SUV into a backyard, authorities said.

Reid Sapato, of the 8500 block of Stone Creek Boulevard in Frankfort, faces one felony count of aggravated fleeing and eluding police and multiple misdemeanor and petty traffic offenses, including reckless driving.

DuPage County Judge Ann Celine O'Hallaren Walsh on Tuesday set his bail at $40,000. He would have to post $4,000 to be released from custody before trial.

Prosecutors said a Lisle police officer on a routine patrol just after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday saw a maroon Toyota C-HR traveling on Ogden Avenue at 82 mph in a 45-mph zone.

The officer turned on his emergency lights and tried to pull Sapato over, but he fled and ultimately turned onto River Road, prosecutors said.

When Sapato reached the end of River Road - a dead-end street - he drove up a driveway and through two residential backyards before crashing his SUV in another backyard and fleeing on foot, prosecutors said. Officers located Sapato a short time later in the neighborhood.

There were no reported injuries.

Sapato's next scheduled court appearance is his arraignment on Aug. 22.