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KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – K-9 Blue helped instrumentality down a suspected DUI operator who led deputies connected a high-speed pursuit done Kings County Wednesday.
On Wednesday, astir 1:30 a.m., a lawman was patrolling erstwhile helium noticed a Jeep that was missing its beforehand licence sheet leaving the Yokut Gas Station. After moving the registration, the lawman recovered that the backmost sheet was registered to a Honda.
The lawman enactment connected his lights, but the sheriff's bureau says 43-year-old driver, Marco Erik Estrella-Medina, refused to propulsion over. The sheriff's bureau says helium drove westbound connected Jersey Avenue, exceeding 115 mph, and ran aggregate halt signs on the way.
According to the sheriff's office, helium besides tried to obstruct their presumption by veering onto the ungraded enarthrosis to footwear up dust.
The pursuit continued to Highway 198, wherever deputies said Estrella-Medina reached speeds of 120 mph. Deputies deployed spike strips adjacent Jackson Ave and deflated the Jeep's tires, but Estrella-Medina continued to drive.
Just earlier reaching Kansas Avenue, helium drove eastbound crossed Highway 41 into a writer tract wherever helium collided with a information obstruction astir a ample star sheet installation. Officials said helium past abandoned the Jeep and leapt implicit the fence, leaving down an unharmed rider who was apprehended.
After much than an hr of searching, Air-1 informed deputies that they had recovered Estrella-Medina lying beneath a enactment of star panels.
According to deputies, helium refused to comply with galore orders to surrender; that's erstwhile K-9 Blue was deployed and took him down.
Estrella-Medina was transported to a adjacent infirmary and was taken into custody aft his discharge. During the booking process, deputies accidental ammunition was located connected his person, which helium was prohibited from possessing owed to his aggregate felony convictions.
His charges see evading a bid serviceman with disregard for nationalist safety, driving the incorrect mode during a pursuit, resisting arrest, being a convicted felon successful possession of ammunition, and DUI. His bail was acceptable astatine $90,000.
