DCSO deputy uses Taser to subdue fleeing fugitive
A 36-year-old fugitive ran from his Redmond-area home and tried to elude Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies Monday morning, then approached them ” in a combative manner ,” prompting the use of a Taser to subdue and arrest him, deputies said.
Deputies were in the area of a home in the 2000 block of Northwest 35th Street, just west of Redmond, investigating a possible code or ordinance issues involving septic failure, solid waste violation and recreational vehicle occupation violations, Sgt. James McLaughlin said.
During their investigation, deputies learned that David Edward Stryffeler was living at the home and had a statewide felony warrant for parole violation McLaughlin said.
The man tried to hide from deputies in an adjacent lot, then ran when they found him, prompting a chase on foot for about 100 yards , the sergeant said.
Stryffeler climbed over a fence to a neighboring yard and was surrounded by deputies. McLaughlin said Stryffeler then “stopped and began to approach deputies in a combative manner .”
After several warnings went unheeded, he said, one of the deputies deployed a Taser to detain Stryffeler, who was taken into custody and treated at the scene by Redmond Fire and Rescue paramedics.
A search of the area turned up a “felony amount” of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, McLaughlin said.
Stryffeler was taken to St Charles Redmond with non-life-threatening injuries. He later was released from the hospital and taken to the county jail in Bend, where he was booked on charges of second-degree escape, resisting arrest, felony meth possession, misdemeanor attempt to elude and felon in possession of a weapon. He was held without bail on the parole violation charge.
In November 2017, Stryffeler, then a Terrebonne resident and a fugitive at the time as well, refused to pull over for a traffic stop, leading to a 3-mile chase that ended in a fruitless manhunt on Bureau of Land Management land.
He pleaded guilty early last year to fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and was sentenced to a one-year driver’s license suspension, 15 days in jail and 18 months probation. The jail term was increased to 60 days in January 2019 for probation violation.
