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A 30-year-old first lieutenant in the Virginia Army National Guard has been deemed competent to stand trial after a 2½-month evaluation at Central State Hospital.

Joshua Phillip Yabut was charged after police said he took an armored vehicle from a training exercise at Fort Pickett and led them on a 65-mile pursuit that ended in downtown Richmond near Capitol Square on June 5.

He appeared in Richmond General District Court on Friday where his attorney and a Richmond prosecutor reached a deal that dismisses all but one charge against him.

Yabut initially faced one count each of driving under the influence of drugs, felony eluding police and felony unauthorized use of a vehicle. The DUI and authorized use charges were dismissed, while the felony elude count will go before a grand jury in circuit court. His next court date in Richmond has not been set.

He also faces a felony charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle in Nottoway County, where Fort Pickett is located.

Yabut, a company commander in the Petersburg-based 276th Engineer Battalion, was participating in an annual training when he drove away in an armored personnel carrier just before 8 p.m. A guard spokesman said he was not authorized to do so, nor was it part of the exercise.