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DUCHESNE — A wild chase in Duchesne County ended with the arrest of one man and the seizure of several stolen vehicles, personal identification documents and drugs.
About 11 p.m. Sunday, a man in a Yukon Denali went to an RV park near Duchesne and "told the camp host that he was a federal agent and he needed to use their showers," according to a police booking affidavit. The camp host called police and responding officers spotted the vehicle pulling out of a nearby gas station and attempted to pull it over on U.S. 40. The driver initially stopped, then sped away from officers.
"The vehicle went west across the Freedom Bridge ... without stopping at the 'road closed' signs and then continued through the construction zone at a high rate of speed, I estimated that the Yukon was going close to 100 mph in the work zone," the affidavit states.
At one point, police say the fleeing driver turned off the vehicle's headlights, went into oncoming traffic and then back into his own lane of travel before hitting another car. The Yukon was able to continue driving and got off the main road onto a frontage road.
"I followed the vehicle to where it went off of any developed roadway and down a hill," police wrote in the affidavit.
The SUV was found on a nearby property where the homeowner had been away for a month, crashed into a wooden fence.
On the property, police found four vehicles that were stolen, a camp trailer that was stolen and later determined the Yukon officers had been chasing was also stolen, the affidavit states.
The man was found inside the trailer and arrested. A loaded gun was found under the pillow he was laying on, police say.
Between the Yukon and the trailer, police seized methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, a modified passport with the letters "FBI" attached to it, and eight driver's licenses, social security cards and passports determined to be stolen from around the Wasatch Front, the affidavit states.
The man refused to give police his name. He was booked into the Duchesne County Jail for investigation of 19 charges, including five counts of possession of a stolen vehicle, theft, failing to stop for police, possession of a firearm by a restricted person and impersonating an officer.
