Placer County Arrests Juvenile for Evading Law Enforcement in Highspeed Chase
Originally Published by: Placer County Sherriff’s Facebook Page:
“A Placer County Sheriff’s deputy was on patrol in North Lake Tahoe on August 3rd at 11 p.m., when he conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle along Highway 28. The deputy exited his patrol car and attempted to contact the driver when the driver took off at a high rate of speed. The deputy attempted to pursue the vehicle but lost sight of it. The deputy had already taken down the suspect vehicle’s license plate number and during his investigation, found an address associated with the vehicle. The deputy went to the address in Tahoe Vista and found the vehicle in question. Several deputies responded to the residence where the suspect vehicle was parked and contacted the suspect driver, a 15-year-old male juvenile. The juvenile was arrested for evading and driving without a license.
While we hope the juvenile learned a very valuable lesson, we want everyone to know you can’t escape from our deputies – they will find you and arrest you. Kudos to the tenacious deputy who tracked the juvenile driver down even after losing sight of his vehicle, and we are grateful the deputy was not injured when the juvenile fled from the traffic stop.”
