Man leads Kent officers on high-speed car chase before crashing | Police Blotter

Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of attempting to elude and drunk driving after he led officers on a two-mile, high-speed chase that lasted about three minutes.

The incident started at about 3:50 a.m. Aug. 12 when officers responded to a report of a suspicious subject in the 10000 block of Southeast 202nd Street, according to the police report.

A man called 911 to report a man prowling a neighbor’s house before leaving in a vehicle. An officer spotted a vehicle that seemed to match the suspect vehicle near the Benson Highway and Southeast 204th Street. The officer activated his overhead lights in an effort to stop the Chevy Tahoe.

But as the Tahoe driver approached a stop sign, he blew through the stop, made a u-turn and sped westbound on Southeast 204th Street going about 60 mph through a residential area and headed northbound on 104th Avenue Southeast with the officer in pursuit.

The Tahoe went westbound on Southeast 200th Street and then south on 95th Place South. An officer tried a pursuit intervention technique (PIT) by ramming his car into the Tahoe, but the maneuver failed.

A second officer also in pursuit then took the lead chase position and stopped the Tahoe with a PIT westbound on South 208th Street near the Highway 167 overpass. The Tahoe flipped on its passenger side.

Both officers charged out of their cars with their guns out and aimed at the driver. The driver, who was alone in the car, remained seat belted. Officers ordered him out of the vehicle.

“I’m done, I’m ready to go to jail,” the man replied.

Paramedics cleared the man to go to jail as he had only minor scratches from the accident.

Officers discovered through record checks that the man had a state Department of Corrections warrant for escape and a Seattle warrant for possession of a firearm.

Police did not find any connection with the man as a suspicious subject from the initial 911 call. Nobody had broken into the home the neighbor called about.

Malicious mischief

Officers arrested a man for investigation of third-degree malicious mischief after he reportedly broke an antique mirror and flower vases during a dispute with his girlfriend.

A woman called 911 to report her boyfriend had a knife at about 12:42 a.m. Aug. 11 at a home in the 10800 block of Southeast 235th Street, according to the police report.

The woman told police she had an argument with her boyfriend and he told her to get out of the house. But she responded that she wasn’t leaving because she paid most of the bills.

The boyfriend reportedly grabbed a serrated kitchen knife and pointed it at the woman, but he threw it in a sink after she asked him if he was going to hurt her. The man then allegedly picked up three flower vases and threw them at the large mirror, which was shattered. The woman said the mirror was 100 years old and worth nearly $5,000.

The man told police the argument was about past relationships. He denied breaking the mirror or throwing the vases.

Drugs

Police cited and released a man for investigation of possession of marijuana after he reportedly had a plastic baggie of marijuana in his pants pocket   that officers found after a response to a suspicious vehicle call.

Officers responded at about 8:10 p.m. Aug. 14 to the 26900 block of 138th Avenue Southeast to investigate a suspicious vehicle circling the neighborhood, according to the police report.

Officers saw three men standing outside a car that matched the vehicle description. The men said they were there to use the basketball courts, but they did not have a basketball.

Police could smell marijuana as they talked to the men. One man took out a plastic baggie from his pocket that had a green vegetable like matter inside and a medical marijuana sticker on the outside. The man didn’t have a medical marijuana card. He said a friend had left the baggie at his house a few weeks ago and he kept it for him.

Officers tested the material inside the baggie and found 1.0 grams of marijuana.

Assault

Officers cited and released a man for investigation of assault after he allegedly used his cane to hit another man.

A man called 911 to report that he had been robbed at about 12:21 p.m. Aug. 10 at Kiabara Park on West Smith Street downtown, according to the police report.

The man said another man used a metal cane to hit him and then took his bicycle and backpack. The men reportedly knew each other. An officer found the bicycle in the park and gave it back to the man.

The man cited by police said he had “thumped him a couple of times,” when officers asked him what had happened between the two men.