Alleged DUI driver crashes with Reedley officer in pursuit, police say

REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 20-year-old from Fresno was arrested Friday day aft allegedly colliding into a constabulary conveyance portion driving drunk, the Reedley Police Department announced.

Police accidental astir 3:40 p.m. they responded to Manning and Fisher avenues aft receiving reports of a imaginable intoxicated driver.

As officers arrived to the country they recovered the conveyance adjacent Columbia and Ponderosa avenues and attempted to marque a postulation stop. After the operator failed to stop, officers accidental a abbreviated pursuit ensued.

During the pursuit, constabulary accidental a firearm was thrown from the conveyance arsenic it traveled 50 mph done a residential area. The conveyance yet drove up a curb, colliding into the structure of a adjacent location and taking retired a fence.

Investigators study the operator continued connected for a abbreviated region earlier colliding into a Reedley constabulary patrol vehicle.

Police accidental the driver, 20-year-old Victor Chavez of Fresno, and his passenger, 24-year-old Anthony Virk of Reedley, were detained soon after. The loaded firearm initially thrown from the conveyance was recovered and determined to beryllium unserialized.

Investigators study Chavez was arrested connected suspicion of drunk driving, felony evading and possession of an unserialized firearm. Virk was arrested for a probation usurpation and a prohibited idiosyncratic successful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Police accidental nary 1 was injured during the people of the incident.