SNOHOMISH — The big green pickup on blown tires barreling down Maple Avenue got quite a lot of attention Wednesday, April 26 just before 6 p.m.
The driver, a 37-year-old man, made it to Second Street where he turned left, and made it past Pilchuck Vet along 88th Street before parking it on the U.S. 2 overpass and trying to flee on foot. A K-9 got him.
His initial court date was April 27 in district court on charges alleging possession of a stolen vehicle, obstructing law enforcement and possession of stolen property plus misdemeanors of possession of drug paraphernalia (he had a glass pipe) and resisting arrest.
At the city limits, police had been waiting for that Ford F-250 to come through and threw another set of spike strips to puncture the tires.
Court documents show it all started when a sheriff’s deputy was doing routine work in the Centennial Trail parking lot. He saw the truck and figured out the plates were switched. The driver got onto the road soon after and the deputy paced behind. Along OK Mill Road, when the driver turned around at a driveway to head the opposite direction, the deputy attempted a traffic stop which the driver didn’t heed.
Other deputies already heading that way laid spike strips at OK Mill Road in Machias and again at Machias Road entering Snohomish city limits. By the end, the truck was riding on its rims.
The man told police he had just ingested fentanyl, so he got a hospital evaluation before being booked into jail.
A line of police and fire aid cars had paced behind the truck for part of its route.
