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LAS VEGAS — A man has been arrested after spending 13 years on the run from Orem police.
Reinhold Neumann is accused of assaulting an officer in Nov. 1999. Orem police had responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle in northwest Orem and found Neumann passed out behind the wheel of a running, stolen truck.
When Officer John McCombs attempted to remove the keys from the vehicle's ignition, Neumann woke up and bit and assaulted the officers, after which he drove away, dragging Officer Garrett Smit along with him.
McCombs and Smit both suffered injuries as a result of the incident.
The search was unsuccessful until Neumann was arrested four years later in Pasadena, Calif., and extradited back to Utah. Neumann posted bail, though, and was not seen again until Aug. 11, when he was arrested in Las Vegas for a DUI and was booked into the Clark County Jail under the name Joaquin Lopez-Caraballo. It was eventually determined the man arrested was Neumann.
