Logan County jury finds Wells fled police on motorcyle

A Logan County jury today needed less than hour to convict Dustin T. Wells guilty failing to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a felony of the third degree. The jury also found that Wells' flight caused a substantial risk of serious physical harm to people or property.
 
Logan County Assistant Prosecutor Nathan Yohey presented evidence that shortly after midnight on October 11, 2025, Bellefontaine Police Officer Bryce Goodrich heard a motorcycle and saw Wells leave the Wrock Bottom Brewery and go the wrong way down a one-way alley in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on a burnt orange motorcycle.
 
Wells denied that he was the person on the motorcycle.
 
Officer Goodrich testified he and other law enforcement officers activated their overhead lights and pursued Wells, who traveled at high speed to escape.  Assistant Prosecutor Yohey also introduced the testimony of a security guard at the bar that placed Wells and the motorcycle at the bar and analysis of cellular records by Logan County Detective Adam Wood to convince the jury that it was Wells who was on the motorcycle.
 
At the time of the offense, Wells was already on probation for a prior failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer conviction and a drug-related conviction. Well's probation officer, Eric Mattox, testified that a green hoodie sweatshirt that the motorcycle rider wore looked like the same green hoodie sweatshirt that Wells wore to a meeting with him a few days before the offense.
 
Wells was represented by defense counsel Luke Meenach of Bellefontaine, Ohio.