Two Durant police officers were injured, one seriously, after separate crashes early Saturday morning during a high-speed chase east of the city limits.

Linston O. Guilbeau, 44, the suspect in the pursuit, was arrested early Saturday evening.

According to Lt. Carrie Wyrick, one officer was careflighted to Parkland Hospital after crashing his Dodge Charger patrol car at Old Highway 70 and Lone Oak Road. Durant firefighters extricated the officer from the vehicle.

He was listed in stable condition at press time Saturday with head, trunk and arm injuries,

Police declined to release his name.

Wyrick said the chase began at approximately 2 a.m. after Patrolman Wesley Crank attempted to make a traffic stop at North McLean and East Cedar Street.

The driver, later identified as Guilbeau, made a U-turn and drove off after he saw the officer, Wyrick said. Crank began pursuing the vehicle and the chase continued eastbound on Old Highway 70 outside of the Durant city limits.

The other officer tried to catch up to the pursuit when he lost control of his patrol car, left the roadway and struck a tree.

Crank continued the chase southbound on Five Doe Road where the road dead ends. According to police, the suspect turned off his vehicle lights, stopped before a gate, and bailed out on foot.

Crank, who did not see the stopped vehicle until it was too late, crashed his patrol car into the back of it. Wyrick said that Crank attempted to chase the suspect on foot but was unable to continue due to a back injury sustained in the crash. He was taken to the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma where he was treated and later released.

A perimeter was set up and a massive manhunt began in the area.

“Every law enforcement agency in the area had people out there,” Wyrick said. “Everybody pulls together when something like this happens.”

Approximately 30 units from the Durant Police Department, Bryan County Sheriff’s Office, Calera Police Department, Colbert Police Department, Bennington Police Department, Bokchito Police Department, Choctaw Tribal Police, Caddo Police Department and an additional 25 -plus units from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol assisted in the manhunt. Officers checked vehicles that drove through the area. Aircraft, horses and tracking dogs were also utilized.

The search was scaled back at approximately 2 p.m. Saturday. At 5:20 p.m., Guilbeau was arrested at the dead end of Green Acres Drive after someone spotted him and called authorities, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Green Acres Drive is east of Five Doe Road.

According to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Web site, Guilbeau was sentenced in 1992 for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, cruelty to animals, escape from detention and intimidation of a witness. His sentence on cruelty to animals was scheduled to end in 2013. He had been on parole for that sentence.