Man arrested after evading police, ordering hamburger


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OREM — A high speed chase ended Monday night when officers saw the car pull into a fast food drive-thru.

An Orem Police officer saw a driver in a blue Mustang speeding down State Street in Orem Monday evening. A high speed chase ensued, but the officer lost the driver, according to Orem Police Lt. Craig Martinez. However, the officer soon spotted the blue Mustang with the hungry driver ordering food.

"He looked around and saw the blue mustang in the Wendy's drive-thru ordering some food," Martinez said.

The officer got in position to pull the driver over, as soon as the man had finished ordering his food.

"The problem was the guy left the parking lot as fast as he went into it, squealing his tires, fishtailing and he got up to 70 miles per hour pretty quickly," Martinez said.

However, as the officer tried to pull the driver over, the pursuit became quite dangerous.

"The driver went even faster, probably in excess of 100 miles per hour on State Street," Martinez said. "At 8 p.m. on a Monday evening, it's pretty busy."

The officer quickly stopped the pursuit because of safety concerns, and he decided to ask the Wendy's drive-thru workers if they could identify the man through his food purchase.

"The drive-thru clerks remembered this guy," Martinez said. "He squealed his tires, sped out in the drive-thru. They gave him a good description and one other piece of information — that he paid for his food with a personal debit card. So our detective wrote a search warrant."

Two days later, detectives used the debit card information to track down Tyler Edginton, 23. Police said he told them he sped away because he was afraid of getting another ticket.

"He just got his car out of the tow yard when our officer tried to stop him and he didn't want another ticket, didn't want to lose his car again," Martinez said. "So a really, really poor decision on his part. He wouldn't have got a traffic ticket, probably sent on his way."

Edington was booked in a county jail on investigation of evading and reckless driving, and his Mustang was impounded.

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