Sgt. Mitch Carr, 40, suffered multiple serious injuries last weekend when he flipped his Ford Crown Victoria several times and wound up in a wooded area off of Denny’s Store Road near the Allensville Volunteer Fire Department. Carr was involved in a high-speed chase at the time, and Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones said speeds during the 10-minute chase likely reached 80 to 100 miles per hour.

On Friday, Jones said he had learned that Carr “has been moved to a regular room,” at Duke, but that his condition remains serious.

“I am not sure if they have taken him off the critical list or not,” Jones said. He did add, however, that “the news was good news.

“It’s good to hear that it appears that he is getting better,” Jones said. “He still has a long ways to go, but it is looking better.”

Earlier this week, Jones said that Carr suffered “multiple broken bones, several facial fractures, a broken arm, a broken leg, a broken ankle and a collapsed lung.”

Carr and other sheriff’s deputies were attempting to serve a warrant against Joshua Adam Campbell, 22, of 3520 Bowmantown Rd. for a probation violation of a previous felony charge and a misdemeanor warrant for larceny.

Carr, who did not stop at the scene of the accident, was apprehended the following day in Granville County and charged with a host of traffic-related offenses in connection with the chase and wreck.

Two of the charges against Campbell were felonies — fleeing to elude arrest and hit-and-run driving/failure to stop for serious personal injury. On those charges, Campbell was jailed under a $450,000 secured bond.

As of mid-day Friday, Campbell remained in custody under a total secured bond of $495,500. A felony charge of financial identity fraud was levied on Campbell by sheriff’s deputies Wednesday in connection with a Feb. 20 incident. On that charge, he was given a $5,000 secured bond.

At the time of the chase last weekend, Campbell was serving a 36-month probation for an Oct. 29, 2007 felony conviction of obtaining property by false pretense.