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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man who led Columbus police on a lengthy high-speed chase and was eventually arrested after he jumped off a bridge and into a southeast Columbus creek will serve nearly five years in prison.

On Tuesday, Adam Garber pleaded guilty to failure to comply after he drove a stolen Jeep Compass nearly 15 miles – from North Linden to the South Hamilton Road bridge over Big Walnut Creek – and was sentenced to nine months in prison.

That sentence, however, is to run consecutively with two other cases in which he also pleaded guilty. A Franklin County Court of Common Pleas judge rendered a decision in which Garber was sentenced to four additional years in prison, two years apiece, after he twice pleaded guilty to illegal transportation of scrap tires. In all three cases, a charge of receiving stolen property was dropped.

Garber’s initial sentence stems from an incident on May 7 when a Franklin County Sheriff deputy spotted a suspected stolen vehicle. Attempts to pull over the Jeep Compass in North Linden, near the intersection of Cleveland Avenue and Huy Road were unsuccessful and the driver, Garber, sped away.

A pursuit ensued with speeds that reached up to 100 MPH on Columbus interstates. The chase covered approximately 15 miles before Garber pulled over on South Hamilton Road, near a bridge over Big Walnut Creek, on the southeast side of the city.

Garber exited the vehicle, ran to the bridge and jumped into the creek. Columbus police and Columbus Fire Water and Rescue crews assisted deputies in the search for Garber, which lasted around 30 minutes.

Rescue teams found Garber clinging to a tree branch near the bank of the creek. About an hour after the attempted traffic stop, he was pulled out of the water and treated for minor injuries before his arrest.

Garber’s long criminal history includes well over a dozen charges in Franklin County municipal and common pleas courts dating back nearly 30 years. Among his previous charges include drug offenses, multiple charges of receiving stolen property, theft, and aggravated menacing.