police pursuit

A woman is in jail after police in Grant County say she burglarized a home and drew a knife on several investigating officers. Grant County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, Kyle Foreman, says deputies responded to a burglary call in the 7800 block of Grove Road Northeast in Moses Lake at around 3:45 p...

A Quincy man is behind bars after police say he fled from them in a suspected stolen vehicle. The Chelan County Sheriff's Office says a Chelan resident reported they had loaned their car to a friend who had failed to return it and had learned that someone else might have been driving it...

An East Wenatchee man is behind bars after police say he led them on a lengthy vehicle pursuit that ended in an armed standoff on Monday night. Trooper Jeremiah Mathews of the Washington State Patrol says the incident began around 7:30 p...

An Ephrata man is in jail after leading police on a lengthy vehicle pursuit in Grant County on Tuesday morning. The Grant County Sheriff's Office reports it began around 11 a.m. when a deputy approached a running vehicle at the entrance to the Ephrata gun club just off State Route 282 and Airport Street Southeast...

A Mansfield man is in jail after police in Lincoln County say he led them on a vehicle pursuit through miles of wheat fields on Wednesday afternoon. Deputies spotted 41-year-old Joseph Lee Cooper driving a pickup truck that had been reported stolen out of Chelan and the chase began on U...

A Moses Lake man is under arrest after police say he led them on a pursuit in a motor home while intoxicated early Sunday morning. The incident began around 3:15 a.m. when officers with the Moses Lake Police Department responded to the report of a motor home that witnesses said had struck a parked car in the lot of a convenience store at the corner of Stratford and Valley Roads before leaving the

Wenatchee police officers recently apprehended a man who allegedly stole a car, ran over his passenger, and tried to flee the scene in Wenatchee Friday afternoon.

A bill in the Washington Senate is exploring an alternative strategy regarding the reimplementation of broader-based police pursuits in the state. SB-5533 aims to create law enforcement programs that utilize automated technologies such as license plate readers and drones to track and catch criminals instead of traditional officer pursuits...

Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison is hopeful that a bill to loosen restrictions on vehicle chases will get through the state legislature this session.  He took part in a dialogue that police chiefs and sheriffs had with state lawmakers last week in Olympia.  ...

Eyebrows were raised last week when 45th District State Senator Manka Dhingra D-Redmond said she would not introduce the senate version of a pair of bipartisan bills addressing police pursuits