Documents: Man drove an hour to pick up alcohol for teen girls before crashing into VFW
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - An Olathe, Kansas, man was charged with two felonies in connection with a law enforcement pursuit that ended with a crash into the roof of a VFW building.
A probable cause document indicated that in the early morning hours of Feb. 15, 22-year-old Calen Hollis told law enforcement he drove from Lenexa, Kansas to Rayville, Missouri, in order to pick up two 13-year-old girls and buy them alcohol.
Hollis said one of the girls had messaged him in an open Snapchat forum asking if he could get her and her friend alcohol. After driving more than an hour to pick them up, he drove back toward Excelsior Springs. Hollis told law enforcement that he thought he was taking the girls to their friends’ house since one of the girls was giving him turn-by-turn directions.
When a police vehicle pulled up behind him, Hollis said he panicked because he was not licensed. Hollis was on felony probation out of Johnson County, Kansas, for having sexual relations with a minor, had served three years in prison and is a ed sex offender.
A chase ensued for about a minute before the driver veered off the side of Linwood Road. The Excelsior Police Department said the vehicle went airborne and crashed into the roof of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building. Hollis and the two 13-year-olds were rescued from the wreckage.
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The teens were taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital for their injuries, and one of them suffered a broken collarbone and multiple spinal fractures, the court document stated.
The probable cause document stated that Hollis was driving more than 90 mph through Excelsior Springs and reached 100 mph when the car went off the road and crashed into the building.
He was charged with two counts of aggravated fleeing a vehicle stop in Clay County Circuit Court and was also arrested in Johnson County on suspicion of probation violation.
His bond in Clay County was set at $150,000, but as of Thursday morning, he remained behind bars at the Johnson County Detention Center.
Editor’s Note: The ages of the girls have been corrected from 18 years old to 13 years old. Hollis is also from Olathe, not Excelsior Springs, as was previously written.
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