VALPARAISO | Police say a former pediatrician repeatedly called a woman who had a restraining order against him, then drove to her home, rammed his car into her garage and threw rocks at her windows before leading Porter County officers on a high-speed chase.

Police said Jihad Kasim, 52, fled from the woman's home in the Aberdeen neighborhood to his home at 394 Wessex Road in Shorewood Forest. Kasim was arrested on charges of fleeing, resisting arrest, criminal recklessness, reckless driving, criminal mischief and invasion of privacy. He faces up to 10 1/2 years in prison if convicted of the charges.

Police got involved at 4:20 a.m. Saturday when the woman, who lives just south of Valparaiso in Aberdeen, called to report that Kasim was trying to get into her home.

The victim told police she awoke to her car alarm going off and saw Kasim ramming her garage door with his vehicle and throwing rocks at her home's windows. Police said her home sustained $4,000 damage.

Police said they approached Kasim, who was inside his 2003 BMW outside the woman's home but he drove away. Police said they tried to stop him but he disregarded the officers' lights and sirens. County police said Officer Jim Gaskill used his squad car to push Kasim's car off the road in the area of County Road 100 North and County Road 325 West.

Police said Kasim accelerated and kept driving, leading county police on an 80 mph chase through the Shorewood Forest neighborhood west of Valparaiso. Police said Kasim pulled into his garage and Officer Brian Gill drove partially into the garage to keep the garage door from closing. The garage door damaged the hood of the police car.

Police said Kasim was taken into custody after a struggle. Kasim has a prior invasion of privacy arrest from about four months ago.

In addition, while working as a pediatrician in Merrillville, he was charged in a 2007 federal indictment with billing Medicaid more than $1 million for medical services he did not provide.

However, last year U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Rodovich ruled Kasim wasn't mentally competent to stand trial on the fraud charge. Rodovich had heard evidence that Kasim suffered a brain injury from a near-fatal 2003 heart attack.

Rodovich stated, "Kasim's poor judgment and lack of cooperation with defense counsel are the result of a progressive, debilitating disease of dementia."

The Medical Licensing Board of Indiana's Web site shows two medical licenses for Kasim, one of which is listed as suspended and the other is listed as expired.