ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — It’s been a few weeks since a silver-gray Impala with a bullet hole in the passenger’s side door leaped over a ditch into Jean Sanca Calvert’s Robertsdale neat front yard along Highway 104.
Despite the best efforts of …
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ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — It’s been a few weeks since a silver-gray Impala with a bullet hole in the passenger’s side door leaped over a ditch into Jean Sanca Calvert’s Robertsdale neat front yard along Highway 104.
Despite the best efforts of many different police departments, the prime suspect in the car chase, 32 year-old Keith Anthony Kiel, remains at large. According to Nancy Johnson, who works in the public affairs office of the Mobile Police Department, Keil “is believed to be in the Mobile area.” Police say Kiel is 5-foot 5, 165 pounds.
A spokesperson for the Baldwin County Sheriffs office confirmed that information saying that Keil is believed to be in Mobile, and referred questions about the incident to the Mobile Police Department. As of this writing, Monday morning, Keil is still at large.
While things are quiet now, that wasn’t the case on Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Police officers from many different communities circled the vehicle, which looked incongruous in Calvert’s neat front yard, and a helicopter buzzed overhead. The Impala was later taken to Mobile for forensic analysis.
According to a statement Baldwin County Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack at the scene, “The Fairhope Police Department received a call from OnStar that a vehicle reported stolen in Mobile was located in Fairhope.”
According to Mack, the vehicle was one of three stolen from a used car lot in Mobile Aug. 4.
Mack said that the Fairhope police spotted the Impala and tried to stop it, but the vehicle led officers on a “high speed chase” eastbound on Highway 104.
Other departments came to Fairhope’s aid, and according to Mack, the suspect, “Had officers behind him and could see officers coming the other way (on 104.)”
After abandoning the car, police said they believe that Keil fled on foot.
Calvert. says she’s been living in the home “off and on since 1948.”
“I’m not afraid. There’s so many people out there, I feel very safe,” said Calvert.
Calvert was not home when the Impala and the following police vehicles burst into her front yard. She said that she was at an exercise class.
Calvert added that when she returned home around 12:30 p.m., “three police officers” searched the house thoroughly before she went in.
“I think they searched the back shed, too,” Calvert added.
Anyone with information about Kiel's whereabouts is asked to call Mobile police at (251) 208-7211.