POST FALLS - A 19-year-old Post Falls man was arrested on Thursday afternoon for reckless driving after he allegedly drove 100 mph and nearly caused multiple crashes.

Ethan Landon was booked into the Kootenai County jail for reckless driving and cited for driving with a shattered windshield.

"We received several complaints of a driver of a green Pontiac Sunbird with a smashed-out windshield, driving at excessive speeds and flipping people off as he passed them," Post Falls police Capt. Greg McLean said. "He was also reported to be passing people on the right shoulder of the roadway."

McLean said police officers are familiar with Landon. This was the sixth time that he has been booked into the local jail in the past seven months.

"He has been driving suspiciously through the police department parking lot over the last couple weeks," McLean said. "Apparently he was doing it to prove he was not afraid of the police after detectives charged him with petit theft. According to family, he has become unstable due to drug use."

Officers had been alerted that Landon had been reported as driving erratically in and around Post Falls in the past week, according to the police report.

An officer on Thursday was unable to locate Landon after two reports of the Sunbird being driven recklessly in Post Falls. However, Landon later passed by the officer who was on an unrelated call at Seltice Way and Bay Street.

Landon was allegedly honking the horn and waving his left arm out the driver's side window.

Landon pulled over on Interstate 90 and was immediately arrested.

Landon denied driving recklessly and said he hadn't been on the freeway earlier in the day despite multiple reports from motorists stating otherwise and that he had allegedly cut them off.

One reporting party told police Landon nearly caused five accidents.

Landon told police that he believed the motorists who reported him as driving recklessly were lying. Police said Landon yelled profanities and flipped them off during the traffic stop, which Landon denied doing minutes later.

Landon was also allegedly involved in a reckless driving incident in Coeur d'Alene prior to the Post Falls reports, according to police.

Landon's previous arrests were for probation violation, obstructing officers, escape, theft and possession of a controlled substance. He was being held on a $300 bond on Friday.