Five men were arrested two weekends ago in Monterey for allegedly stealing the identities of others, according to court documents.

Warrants on file in the cases allege that the accused men had Social Security numbers they had purchased for $120 in Florida.

Charged with identity theft are the following: Angel Tino Valencia, 34, of Edmonson Pike, Nashville; Cano Antonio Tirso, 21, of Conifer Street, Tallahassee; Garcia Lopez Prudencio, 26, Tino Florencio Francisco, 32 and Tino Valencia Francisco, 39, all of Tallahassee.

Monterey Police Officer Larry Bates filed the warrants in the case on Saturday, October 15.

The officer said he stopped a Nissan vehicle on Interstate 40 at Exit 300 for speeding and found the five men in it to have Social Security numbers they admitted they had bought in Florida for $120.

They did not know “to whom the Social Security numbers belonged,” the warrants say.

The warrants also allege that the men had “several tax identification numbers” that did not belong to them, and that at least two of the five had previously been deported, one out of Arizona and one out of Texas.

The five were booked into Putnam County Jail where bond was set for each at $10,000. They have a November 14 court date.

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A man who fled police on Interstate 40 Saturday morning, October 15, was finally arrested at gunpoint after spike strips were used to flatten his tires. Allegedly, he had a lunch box containing meth and he was intoxicated.

Jay Richard Anliker, 48, of Berry Road, Nashville, is charged with drunk driving, possession of meth, possession of drug paraphernalia, evading arrest, and reckless driving.

It happened around 9 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-40, beginning a few miles west of Cookeville when other drivers spotted a green Hyundai Sonata weaving all over the roadway, police said.

State Trooper Michael Jolley went to the area and began pursuing the car, but the driver would not stop.

One warrant the trooper later took says, “I was dispatched to a reckless driver eastbound on I-40 at mile marker 273. I observed a green Hyundai traveling east on at the 280 mile marker.

“The driver was weaving from one side of the road to the other, completely off the road on each side.”

The warrant goes on to say that the vehicle would travel at a slow speed for a time, then at a fast speed and that the driver continued to ignore blue lights and siren.

Cookeville Police officers were called to help, and Officer Adrienne Lintz and Sgt. Mitch Harrington set up at the S. Jefferson Ave. area of I-40 and prepared to use spike strips to stop the car.

“The spikes were placed at the side of the road and we maintained a position of cover behind the guard rail,” says a report by Officer Lintz.

“As the pursuit approached, Sgt. Harrington pulled the spikes into the path of the suspect vehicle.

“The suspect drove over the spike, flattening the two front tires. The strips were then quickly pulled to the side to allow the pursuing officers a clear path.”

With its tires flat, the vehicle came to a stop west of exit 288, and the driver was ordered to the ground at gunpoint, the officer said.

By that time, several officers were on the scene, including state troopers and Putnam Sheriff’s deputies, the report says.

Trooper Jolley said he found the driver disoriented and confused and smelling of alcohol. Inside the car, the trooper found a lunch box containing “a rock type substance believed to be crystal meth,” one warrant says. A glass crack pipe was also found.

Anliker was booked into Putnam County Jail, where his total bond was set at $7,750. He has a December 2 court date.