A news report featured a story regarding a young man who led police authorities in a high speed chase. The incident happened just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night.
According to the article, a Unified police officer spotted a Camaro leaving a gas station at 5600 S. Redwood Road at a high rate of speed, cross three lanes of traffic and run a red light.
Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal in an interview disclosed that the driver did not stop when the officer attempted to pull him over and continued onto I-215. While on the freeway, several items were thrown out of the vehicle’s window, including what appeared to the officer to be a gun. As of Thursday, the gun was not recovered.
This behavior made the police officer believe that the young man had committed an armed robbery at the gas station, prompting him to continue his chase.
The report stated that the driver exited the freeway near 3500 South, stopped his vehicle on a nearby residential street, got out and ran. Detectives found two women, ages 20 and 29, remaining in the vehicle. Hoyal said the relationship between the women and the driver was not known.
Court records show Archer was charged in three separate felony cases in 2012, pleading guilty to felonies in two of them and an amended misdemeanor charge in the third.
Police authorities said the convenience store was not robbed.
Christensen & Hymas is glad that the reckless behavior of Justin Archer did not result in an injury to himself and to his companions. It is also very fortunate that no motorists or pedestrians were reported hurt by the high speed chase.
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Original article by Pat Reavy of ksl.com.
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