Adam Samuel Charles, a member of a Eugene family with an extensive criminal record, was arrested in Glenwood Sunday on a parole violation charge after a brief pursuit, according to the Springfield Police Department.

Charles, now 38, was convicted in Lane County Circuit Court in December 1990 of the attempted murder of 18-year-old Mel Gary Hearn and sentenced in March 1991 to 19 years and two months in prison, plus three years of probation after completing his term, according to Register-Guard reports of the crime.

Charles was riding in a westbound car in Springfield that crossed into Glenwood and turned into the Roaring Rapids pizza parlor, Springfield Police Sgt. John Umenhofer said.

The driver of the vehicle, Nicole Colleen Scott, 38, also was arrested shortly after noon Sunday for violation of her parole on a robbery charge, Umenhofer said.

Springfield Police attempted to pull Scott over after a traffic infraction, he said.

The second-youngest of 10 children in the Charles family, three of whom have been convicted of murder, and three of attempted murder, Adam Charles was 20 years old when he stabbed Hearn in the chest during an altercation in October 1990 at a West Seventh Avenue apartment in Eugene. He was convicted of burglary, assault and kidnapping in addition to the attempted murder charge.

Charles already had a lengthy record of crime, dating back to arson charges as a 13-year-old, according to Register-Guard reports from the 1980s.

He is one of nine sons and one daughter born to the late Avery and Ruth Charles, who moved to Eugene from Klamath Falls and lived in west Eugene in the 1970s and ’80s. All 10 Charles children have served jail time and have been convicted of violent crimes.

Avery Charles, whose name was linked to a lengthy record of crimes ranging from arson to larceny but never served any prison time, claimed that his family were members of a “persecuted minority” in a 1987 Register-Guard story. The family are Klamath Indians.

One of Avery Charles’ sons, Anthony Arnold “Tony” Charles was sentenced to life in prison in January 1980 for the April 1979 stabbing death of Gregory Allen Ford on the Eugene Mall. He was released from prison in 1995 to an undisclosed location and promptly disappeared, creating speculation that he had been killed.

Another son, Calvin Howard Charles, was sentenced to life in prison for a 1982 double murder in Klamath Falls.

Linden Lee Charles, the youngest of the 10 Charles children, was convicted of murder when he was just 13 for shooting a Bend fisherman in May 1987. He was sent to a state training school.