High-speed chase from Redmond to Culver ends in arrest
A driver who led police on a high-speed pursuit from Redmond north to Culver stopped after his car was spike-stripped early Friday and faces several charges, police said.
Redmond police Lt. Mike Kidwell said an officer tried to conduct a traffic stop shortly before midnight on a black 2001 Pontiac Grand Am in the area of Seventh Street and Evergreen Avenue due to suspicious activity and expired license plates.
The driver, later identified as Madras transient Alberto Reyes, 32, reportedly hit speeds of 85 mph as Deschutes County, then Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and Oregon State Police joined in the pursuit on several streets including Maple Avenue, Northwest Way and Highway 97.
The pursuit went north into Jefferson County, then on Highway 361 into Culver, where the car hit spike strips in the area of First and Iris, and eventually stopped in the area of Lakeshore Drive, according to unconfirmed police scanner reports.
Reyes was cited on charges including an outstanding warrant, reckless driving, resisting arrest, reckless endangering and eluding an officer. He was cited and released rather than jailed for reasons police said they could not state due to federal patient privacy guidelines.
