Man arrested after high-speed pursuit through Turlock ends in crash
A Washington man was arrested Sunday after deputies say he led law enforcement on a high-speed chase through Turlock before crashing and trying to run from officers.
Around 2 p.m., deputies were alerted to a vehicle traveling more than 100 mph northbound on Highway 99, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect car was first spotted in Merced County before it entered Stanislaus County at a “significant risk to public safety,” officials said.
A sheriff’s deputy tried to stop the vehicle as it entered the freeway, but the driver failed to yield and continued northbound for nearly four miles, the Sheriff’s Office said. The car eventually struck an unoccupied vehicle parked on the freeway shoulder.
The driver, identified as 33-year-old Cory Chance of Everett, Washington, fled on foot but was found hiding under a parked truck with the help of the Sheriff’s Office unmanned aerial system. Ground units from the California Highway Patrol and the Ceres Police Department coordinated with sheriff’s deputies to safely arrest him.
Chance was booked into jail on three felony counts of evading a peace officer and one misdemeanor count of fleeing the scene of a crash, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
“We are grateful for the collaboration and support of our allied agencies, whose teamwork helped bring this dangerous pursuit to a safe conclusion and removed a reckless individual from our roadways,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote in a statement.
