Everett burglary suspects crash three times trying to evade police
Mar 21, 2013, 1:36 PM | Updated: 1:39 pm
Police are looking for two burglary suspects who were involved in three crashes Thursday morning as they fled from officers.
Police were responding to a burglary alarm shortly after 4 a.m. when they saw a flatbed truck speeding away.
The truck hit another vehicle at an intersection, and the other vehicle caught fire. Aaron Snell, with the Everett Police Department, says officers were nearby and able to get the fire out quickly.
The woman driver of the other vehicle suffered minor injuries.
The fleeing truck next hit a patrol car, disabling it.
“Our patrol car was damaged to such an extent it couldn’t pursue the suspect vehicle,” said Snell. “Fortunately the officer was not injured.”
Snell says the officer wasn’t even in pursuit, he was just surveying the area, looking for the suspect vehicle.
The truck finally crashed into a fence and came to rest in a yard.
The two suspects ran away. A search with a police dog failed to find them.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
