CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio Highway Patrol troopers arrested two men with several fake IDs and credit cards after a high-speed chase that ended with troopers crashing into the men’s SUV on Pearl Road in Brunswick.

The chase began after the men sped away from a trooper who said he “smelled weed” in their SUV at a rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike, according to the highway patrol.

Larel Littleton, of Edinburgh, Indiana, and Kijuan Clemons, of Riverdale Illinois, face several felony charges including counterfeiting, identity theft, obstructing official business, fleeing and eluding and tampering with evidence after their Feb. 9 arrest. But neither man is accused of using or possessing drugs.

Littleton, 28, is being held in Cuyahoga County Jail on $250,000 bond after his initial appearance in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court last week. Clemons, 24, was released after posting 10 percent of a $50,000 bond after his first appearance.

The case against the men was bound over to a county grand jury for consideration of felony charges.

Dashboard camera released to cleveland.com this shows the chase reached speeds of more than 100 mph on both the county’s highways and along Pearl Road through Strongsville, Brunswick and approaching Medina.

Sgt. Ray Santiago, a spokesman for the patrol’s Cleveland post, said the entire pursuit will be reviewed to ensure troopers followed pursuit policies.

Cleveland’s police department which generally only allows its officers to chase suspects of violent crimes, but troopers do not have such restrictions. Lt. Craig Cvetan said supervisors monitor pursuits and take into account the seriousness of the crime that precipitated the chase, the amount of traffic, road and weather conditions and whether troopers know the identity of the suspects.

“A supervisor must continually evaluate the pursuit based on these criteria and make the determination on whether the pursuit should continue, be terminated or whether to deploy intervention tactics,” Cvetan said. “Several of these tactics were used during the second part of this incident in an effort to make this apprehension with as little risk to the public as possible.”

The chase started when trooper Eduard Manu walked up to their rental Nissan Rogue SUV at a rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike. Manu later told supervisors during the pursuit that he was going to tell the driver to move the Rogue into a parking spot, but he asked the driver to get out of the car when he smelled marijuana, according to dashboard camera video.

The driver refused and took off from the rest stop. Manu hopped into his cruiser and chased after them.

The chase continued on several highways toward Cleveland, until the SUV exited onto Snow Road in Brook Park.

“Headed east on Snow Road. Speed 75. No…light traffic, light snow,” Manu said over the radio, according to the video.

The supervisor replied that the trooper “might want to think about terminating there” if he was on Snow Road.

“I’m not on Snow. I said lightly snowing,” he said.

The video showed the trooper was still on Snow Road. Three seconds later, the SUV turned onto Delores Boulevard, then onto Rademaker Road, both dimly lit residential streets lined by one-story bungalow homes with small front yards. A dusting of snow covered the roads, the video showed.

The chase continued onto Fry Road, then back out onto Snow Road and back toward I-71 before the supervisor gave a crackled order for the trooper to terminate the pursuit.

“Say again,” the trooper replied.

Terminate it, the supervisor said.

Six seconds passed from the time the trooper first got the “terminate” command to when he turned off his lights and siren. But the video showed the trooper followed the SUV at high speeds for five seconds, then the SUV gets back on Interstate 71.

“I just saw him get back south on 71. Can I, go after him?” the trooper asked.

The pursuit resumed, with more troopers joining in.

Santiago told cleveland.com Monday that Manu, a trooper with two years on the job who is based out of the Hiram post, “may have just misspoke” when he wrongly said he was not on Snow Road.

“It was a trooper with not very much time on, in a high-stress situation, in an area he was not familiar with,” Santiago said. “Between giving the roadway condition of ‘snow’ or ‘snow covered’ multiple times and actually exiting onto a road named ‘Snow Road,’ I believe he may have just misspoke. Nevertheless, that portion of the pursuit will be reviewed along with everything else.”

The SUV got off on Pearl Road and sped through Strongsville, where local police and more troopers joined the chase.

They put up stop-sticks on Pearl Road at Progress Drive, right outside the city’s main square at its busiest intersection with Royalton Road. The SUV ran over the sticks and a few seconds later lost a front tire. Seconds after that the SUV’s fender fell off, but the pursuit still continues at speeds of 100 mph down Pearl Road into Brunswick.

Someone inside the SUV threw a duffel bag out the window during the chase, troopers said.

Another trooper executed a pit maneuver and rammed the back of the speeding SUV. The impact knocked it off course. The SUV traveled across three lanes, launched off the curb into a no-parking sign and a utility pole before it flipped on its side stop.

Troopers got out of their cars with guns drawn. One smashed the car’s back glass with a nightstick, and screamed for the men to “get out of the g--------d car.”

“You just put everyone in danger,” one of the troopers screams at the men. “What’s wrong with you?”

Troopers identified Littleton as the driver of the car, Santiago said. Clemons is accused of throwing the bag, which troopers found filled with several IDs and credit cards, Santiago said.

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