DALTON, Ga. — A Dalton teenager was in the Whitfield County jail Wednesday night charged after almost hitting three Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office deputies at a road block.

Edgardo Salaices, 18, 214 Midge Way, Dalton, was charged by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with aggravated assault on an officer engaged in duties, reckless driving and felony fleeing or attempting to elude an officer.

According to an incident report, the deputies were conducting a road check at Airport Road and Keith Mill Road on Tuesday. A red Ford Mustang approached the road block and stopped. The driver told deputies he did not have his license on him. Deputies told him to pull to the side of the road, but as he pulled forward, he sped through the road block with his “tires spinning so fast that smoke was coming from the tires.”

“The vehicle’s maneuvers, speed and recklessness of the driver placed all the deputies at the road check in fear for their safety,” according to the report.

A deputy pursued the vehicle but lost sight of it in Murray County.

Deputies were advised over the radio that the person driving the car might live on Midge Way.

They went there and found Geovanni Salaices and detained him. He said he had just woken up and did not know what was going on. They asked if anyone else was home. He said his brother, Edgardo Salaices, was.

Edgardo Salaices came out of the house, and deputies determined he was the driver of the car and detained him. When he asked why he was being detained, they told him it was because he had almost run over three deputies. The report says he said he did not want to run the deputies over but he did not have his license on him and did not want to go to jail. An incident report listed Edgardo Salaices as a student at Phoenix High School.