Massachusetts man on probation sentenced to prison after dragging officer with vehicle, crashing on Route 24 at 100 mph

BOSTON – A Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer while fleeing a motor vehicle stop.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 27-year-old Tykeam Jackson of Brockton was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 77 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In April 2022, Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers.

On July 27, 2020, a deputized federal law enforcement officer stopped Jackson in Avon, Mass. for speeding and instructed him to exit his vehicle. Instead, Jackson accelerated the vehicle with such force that the officer was dragged for several feet and thrown to the ground. Jackson then sped away, drove in and out of a public parking lot where he swerved around pedestrians and other vehicles, ignored traffic signals and drove into oncoming traffic, eventually travelling at a speed of approximately 100 miles per hour in the breakdown lane of Route 24. After attempting to cross all three travel lanes, Jackson lost control of the vehicle and crashed head-on into the guardrail. He exited the vehicle, ran across Route 24 and was subsequently found running into and obstructing traffic on a nearby roadway.

At the time of the offense, Jackson was on state probation resulting from an armed robbery conviction in Suffolk County Superior Court.

United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins; James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, New England Field Division; Colonel Christopher Mason, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Norfolk County District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah B. Hoefle of Rollins’ Organized Crime & Gang Unit prosecuted the case.