Glendale Heights man jailed after high-speed moped chase

A Glendale Heights man who authorities say led police on a high-speed chase while driving a moped has been ordered jailed pending trial.

Dillon Burgett, 34, of the 1100 block of Harbor Court, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer, two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and various traffic offenses, the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office said in a news release.

The chase occurred about 1 a.m. Friday in Bloomingdale. A police officer had gone to a gas station on the 200 block of East Army Trail Road because an employee had tripped a panic alarm.

The officer saw Burgett leave the store, stumble in the parking lot and then yell at the clerk and the officer.

The officer tried to stop Burgett but he drove off on a moped, eventually heading south on the Veterans Memorial Tollway. After another officer joined the chase, Burgett drove as fast as 85 mph, authorities said.

Burgett eventually got off the tollway at North Avenue, weaved in and out of traffic and drove onto a Speedway gas station lot before losing control and sliding into another vehicle, according to the release.

Burgett’s blood alcohol level was more than double the legal limit when he was arrested, authorities said. The release didn’t say if Burgett was injured.

Judge Thomas Else on Saturday granted a request from prosecutors to detain Burgett until trial. He’s next scheduled to be in court May 4.