Bentonville PD just terminated a pursuit of a suspect wanted for 3 drive-by's. Troop L Troopers S. Lee (L-32) and M. Duarte (L-20) respond and stop the suspect. Trooper Lee received and official commendation for this chase. Captain Scott Russell gave an overview of the nomination of TFC Sor Lee for an Official Commendation. Captain Russell stated on Sunday, October 17, 2021, the Bentonville Police Department and the Rogers Police Department responded to multiple calls of shots fired. They went to three different places where there had been a drive-by shooting into structures. The Bentonville Police Department actually developed a suspect and vehicle and they got behind the vehicle and the guy turned on the interstate, they had a very short pursuit and Bentonville elected to terminate the pursuit when it reached the interstate. TFC Sor Lee was in the area and monitoring the radio traffic. TFC Lee got on Interstate 49 south of where he anticipated the pursuit to go, he sat in the dark and waited and just a little bit of time goes by and here comes the truck. TFC Lee falls in behind the truck, positively identifies it to make sure it is the right vehicle, follows it and radios for assistance. Another trooper a little bit farther south down around the Washington - Benton County lines pulled over and waited. TFC Lee waited until he got to his backup and then he turned on his emergency lights and siren and the driver took off. A pursuit ensued, TFC Lee remained calm, gave clear radio communications and kind of had an idea where the driver was probably going, headed right to Fayetteville. TFC Lee instructed the other trooper that he was getting ready to perform a PIT maneuver and he asked the trooper to slow all of the traffic behind him and the trooper began moving across the three southbound lanes and slowed traffic down to a safe distance. TFC Lee as the suspect driver was taking exit 67 A/B, which goes right into the heart of Fayetteville, performed a perfect PIT maneuver. It was on the right side, the suspect vehicle spun out and entered the ditch. TFC Lee circled around, and the other trooper pulled in and they boxed the suspect in where he could not get back out. TFC Lee and the other trooper then took a position of advantage and cover, they maintained their position and they were shouting commands over a PA and verbally to the suspect for about six minutes and he never responded, never made any gestures. They maintained their cover, followed their training, they did not break cover, and they kept communicating with him. Eventually the suspect put both hands out of the window, opened the door and followed commands and they took him into custody without further incident. Then as the troopers inspected the vehicle, they found something pretty shocking, he had two fully loaded AR-15s in the seat right beside him, numerous 30 round magazines loaded and ready to go, and roughly thousands of rounds of .223 ammunition. He had obviously already committed three drive-bys and was headed somewhere to do something else and I feel like he may have been waiting on our troopers in this situation too. TFC Lee remained calm, he made great command decisions and through his training and experience, he was able to take this guy off the road with no one getting hurt and no damage to our vehicle and no damage to the other vehicle. Colonel Bryant presented the Official Commendation to TFC Sor Lee.