Brad Therriault, 65, has been charged with a felony and seven misdemeanor charges in relation to an Aug. 10 police pursuit.

He made an initial appearance on Aug. 11.

Judge John Kutzman set his bail at $100,000 with Level 3 pretrial and GPS monitoring should he make bail.

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Therriault is charged with a felony count of assault on a peace officer; and misdemeanor counts of fleeing or eluding a peace officer, reckless driving, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, failure to yield, first offense failure to obey a red/stop traffic signal and obstructing a peace officer.

Around 6:30 a.m. Aug. 10, a Great Falls Police officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a maroon pickup driven by Therriault near the intersection of 10th Avenue South and 4th Street South.

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Therriault had allegedly collided with the officer’s patrol vehicle intentionally.

Another officer arrived to assist, activating her patrol vehicle’s emergency lights and siren.

She saw Therriault turn south through the Valvoline parking lot at 400 10th Ave. S., exiting on to 4th Street South without yielding to potential right-of-way traffic, according to charging documents.

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An officer followed Therriault, who “continued to exhibit reckless driving behavior and violated multiple traffic offenses to include: driving at speeds up to 30 miles per hour and greater than posted limits, failing to yield to right-of-way traffic, conducting improper lane changes, conducting improper turns, and failing to stop at a stop light,” according to charging documents.

An officer saw the maroon pickup parked on the north side of 20th Avenue South near the intersection with 16th Street South and saw a male who resembled the driver of the truck about to walk up the front porch steps of a house in the 1500 block of 20th Avenue South.

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Two officers attempted to detain Therriault, who failed to follow their verbal commands and attempted to pull away from the officers.

Therriault continued to resist, but officers got him into a prone position.

GFPD later posted that it was a struggle and officers sustained minor injuries.

Therriault made comments to the officers along the lines of “shoot me,” “you could shoot me,” and “just shoot me,” according to court documents.

Two guns were on the porch.

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The Cascade County Attorney’s Office told The Electric that before the incident, Therriault had baited police into the chase, driving by the station as day shift came on duty, yelling at them until they followed him.

Around 2 p.m. Aug. 11, GFPD posted that they were looking for victims of the chase.

GFPD is asking that drivers who had to “move out of the way, slam on your brakes, or perform another manuever to avoid a collision, or in another way was placed in danger by the driver, please let us know. Call Sgt. Munkres at 406-455-8493 or message GFPD’s Facebook page.

The pursuit route, according to GFPD was:

• from 2nd Street South at 10th Avenue South
• east on 10th Avenue South to 4th Street South
• south on 4th Street South to 13th Avenue South
• east on 13th Avenue South to 7th Street South
• north on 7th Street South to 10th Avenue South
• east on 10th Avenue South to 20th Street South
• driver ran the red light at 9th Street South
• south on 20th Street South to 17th Avenue South
• west on 17th Avenue South to 16th Street South
• south on 16th Street South to 20th Avenue South
• pursuit ended in the 1500 block of 20th Avenue South