While high on methamphetamine and after trying to stab himself in the neck with a pen, a Lawrence man accused of hijacking a van tried to break out of a Missouri jail, officials said Wednesday.

The Henry County Sheriff’s Department in Missouri alleges that Brandon W. Callahan, 24, struck a sheriff’s deputy Tuesday night while trying to escape from Henry County Jail, just hours after leading police on a 130-mile chase through Kansas and Missouri in a van hijacked from Lawrence.

“(The) defendant repeatedly tried to shove his way past a Henry County Sheriff’s Department Detention Officer,” prosecutors wrote in a formal complaint.

Henry County prosecutor Richard Shields charged Callahan with three felony crimes related to the chase and escape attempt, charges that could result in more than 12 years in prison.

Sheriff’s officers there arrested Callahan late Tuesday morning after officers forcibly stopped him in a van stolen at a Lawrence gas station earlier in the morning.

According to the report, written by Henry County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jeremy Bowman, Callahan fled at least seven police cars while driving on one tire and three bare rims, creating “a substantial risk of serious injury or death to any person,” including oncoming traffic and a school bus with children on board.

After an officer’s car struck the rear of the van to stop it, Bowman wrote, Callahan was taken to a detention center, where he admitted having recently taken methamphetamine.

During jail booking, Bowman wrote, Callahan grabbed a pen from the counter of the booking room and tried to stab himself in the neck. A jail officer grabbed the pen from him.

Shortly afterward, while in a holding cell, “he admitted that he was suicidal and wished to harm himself,” Bowman wrote.

When Callahan was then asked to change into his paper jail outfit, he ran toward the jail officer, who was standing in the cell’s door frame, the report said, and the detention officer pushed him back into the cell.

But Callahan again squared his shoulders and ran toward the officer, starting a scuffle that eventually ended with several officers putting Callahan into restraints, the report said.

That incident resulted in the most serious charge against Callahan: attempted escape from confinement.

His bond was set at $100,000, and he’s scheduled to be arraigned Friday.

Callahan’s family members, reached in their hometown of Iola, declined comment.

Callahan had worked for four years at Checkers Foods, 2300 La., and was an apprentice in the meat department. The store’s manager said Callahan had taken a weeklong, personal leave of absence starting Nov. 7 but was due back in the store Tuesday morning for a meeting with management.

When he arrived at the store shortly before 9 a.m., he threw a shopping cart into a window of a co-worker’s vehicle in the parking lot, the store’s manager said. He’s suspected of then going to the Shell gas station at 1733 Mass. and stealing a van.

Douglas County Dist. Atty. Charles Branson said his office had received police reports Wednesday about the events in Lawrence.

“We’ll be reviewing that and making charging decisions based on the reports that we receive,” he said.

Callahan probably would not be brought back to Lawrence until his case in Missouri is resolved, Branson said.