A 52-year-old Devonshire man who led police on a car chase around Hamilton has been jailed for three months.Glenn Patrick Richardson, of Long Ridge Pass, told Magistrates’ Court that police accounts of his dangerous driving were “highly exaggerated it was not a high-speed chase at all.”The court heard from Crown counsel Karen King that on October 11, 2009, at 9.45am, police attended Mount Langton Crescent in Pembroke where a man in a car was reported to be behaving suspiciously. They found Richardson slumped at the wheel of the vehicle, which was parked and blocking traffic. Police also noticed what appeared to be a home made crack pipe.When awoken, Richardson appeared fidgety and nervous. Abruptly, he drove off at high speed, forcing police to take evasive action.The court heard that Richardson drove on the wrong side of the road, ignoring stop signs, and headed onto St John’s Road, narrowly missing a cyclist. Ms King said that Richardson then proceeded east on the wrong side of St John’s Road, swerving from left to right, driving straight through to Marsh Folly Road and causing a bus to brake to avoid him.The car then drove three times in a circle and proceeded onto Cedar Avenue on the wrong side of the road, before making a right turn onto Laffan Street, which is a one-way road. Richardson was stopped by oncoming traffic and reversed, nearly colliding with a marked police car.He did not comply when ordered to stop, and began to fight when pulled from the car. Richardson was subdued with captor spray, handcuffed, and taken to Hamilton Police Station. A miniature vodka bottle found in the car had been fitted with a wire mesh, which tested positive for cocaine.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Richardson $800 for possessing drug equipment, $500 for dangerous driving, and gave him three months’ imprisonment for violently resisting arrest, to begin immediately.