High-speed chase with a stolen gun ends outside a Hanford grocery store

HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A high-speed pursuit that started successful Hanford and took constabulary and different instrumentality enforcement connected a 32-mile pursuit ended erstwhile the fishy crashed into a airy rod successful a market store parking lot, constabulary say.

According to Hanford Police, the pursuit began aboriginal Friday greeting pursuing a postulation halt successful the country of Fourth Street and Phillips Street successful Hanford. The driver, officers say, was showing signs of intoxication earlier becoming combative with officers. The serviceman utilized a taser to effort to subdue the suspect, but the fishy managed to get away.

Officers accidental the fishy drove distant and the resulting pursuit reached speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. The fishy was described arsenic swerving towards officers, brake checking, and astatine 1 constituent ramming a Hanford Police patrol vehicle. Officers accidental the fishy yet mislaid power of the conveyance aft a spike portion was used.

The pursuit ended erstwhile the fishy crashed into a airy rod successful the parking batch of a Save Mart successful Hanford, constabulary say. Inside the vehicle, officers recovered a stolen handgun and unfastened intoxicant containers, constabulary say.

The suspect, 45-year-old Scott Scilagyi, was arrested and booked into Kings County Jail connected suspicion of felony evading, battle with a deadly limb connected a bid officer, felon successful possession of a firearm, DUI and resisting arrest.