JEREMY PAWLOSKI; The Olympian
Published: November 25th, 2007 01:00 AM
A high-speed chase on Interstate 5 in Lewis County ended Friday with the arrest of a felon suspected in a carjacking of a 62-year-old woman in Tacoma, law enforcement officials said.
The chase reached speeds of more than 110 miles per hour and ended about 10 a.m., when the driver of the 1992 Pontiac Bonneville went over a spike strip, Lewis County Sheriff’s Sgt. Rob Snaza said.
The spike strip disabled the car on I-5’s northbound lanes near milepost 81 in Centralia, Snaza said.
No one was hurt, and the driver was taken into custody, Snaza said, adding that the man recently had been released from the custody of the state Department of Corrections.
The chase started in I-5’s southbound lanes, after dispatchers received reports of erratic driving near milepost 77. When Lewis County deputies drove up behind the vehicle, they realized it had been reported stolen, Snaza said. The driver raced away when deputies tried to pull him over.
He drove off I-5 at exit 59 in Vader, turned around and headed north on I-5, Snaza said.
Tacoma Police spokesman Detective Thomas Williams confirmed that the vehicle was reported stolen about 8:30 a.m. Friday, when someone pushed a woman while she was scraping ice off her windshield, got in her car and drove away.
The woman’s keys, purse and credit card were in the car, Williams said. She hit her head after she was pushed and had a headache, and her husband took her to a hospital, Williams said.
