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Juanell Carter, 18, of Hillsdale was charged Monday with aggravated fleeing and tampering with a motor vehicle. He was in custody Tuesday on a $100,000 bond, according to online records.

His new case comes just six months after he took a deal where he pleaded guilty to 16 counts in connection to dozens of car break-ins and thefts across St. Louis County. In exchange, prosecutors dropped 43 other charges against Carter in that case.

In court documents filed Monday, St. Ann police said that just after 1 a.m. an officer saw a stolen 2024 Nissan Altima, driven by Carter, in the parking lot of a QT at 9404 Page Avenue in Overland.

Carter noticed the officer and sped away, court documents say. The officer tried to pull the car over, but Carter fled.

He did a U-turn and entered southbound Interstate 170, but officers were able to launch a magnetic GPS tracker onto the Nissan, police said.

Carter reached speeds of 100 mph, police said. He eventually drove onto eastbound Interstate 64 and into St. Louis city.

He and his passenger abandoned the Nissan at Garrison Avenue and Thomas Street, officers wrote in court documents.

Police searched the area and arrested Carter near the 2700 block of Sheridan Avenue. He was booked into jail about 45 minutes after police initially spotted him at the gas station.

Officers said Carter was found with a loaded pistol, suspected narcotics, a ski-mask and a window breaker.

“It’s a stolen car, I had to,� Carter told the cops, according to charging documents.

Police did not say what happened to Carter’s passenger in his charging documents.

Carter was 16 when he was accused of breaking the windows of dozens of cars between June 2022 and June 2023, from Frontenac to Maryland Heights to Clayton. He was also accused of stealing some of the cars as well as purses, credit cards and guns.

He was certified as an adult and prosecutors filed 59 charges against him, but they later dropped 43 of those counts when Carter took a plea deal in February.

Carter pleaded guilty to 16 counts, including burglary, stealing a car and stealing a firearm.

During that February hearing, Carter pleaded blindly, meaning the prosecution and defense did not agree on a sentence, leaving it up to the judge.

The judge sentenced him to four years in prison. Carter received 620 days time served for his pretrial detention.

Carter served time at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic Correction Center in Bonne Terre, according to online records. Those records on Monday said he was not in custody and was on parole.

A spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Corrections did not immediately provide his release date.

The teenager in February pleaded guilty in two other cases.

In one, Carter pleaded guilty to stealing a motor vehicle and was sentenced to 60 days in jail, online records say.

In the other, he pleaded guilty to three counts of property damage and two counts of stealing. He was sentenced 60 days in jail for each of those counts, though some of them were to run concurrent with each other.