LINCOLN — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol arrested a Norfolk man Saturday morning following a purported gasoline station theft and pursuit.
About 9 a.m. Saturday, the state patrol was knowledgeable of a theft that had been reported at a gasoline station in Valparaiso, mentioned Cody Thomas, public relations director for the patrol. Troopers proceeded to the world and positioned a automobile matching the outline of the theft suspect’s automobile inside 10 minutes because it was touring southbound on Freeway 79 south of Raymond.
The trooper tried a visitors cease, however the driver accelerated and fled, Thomas mentioned, so the trooper initiated a pursuit.
The suspect automobile, a Nissan Altima, reportedly reached speeds exceeding 110 miles per hour because it fled southbound. Because the suspect slowed close to the intersection of Freeway 34 and Freeway 79, a trooper efficiently carried out a tactical automobile intervention to deliver the automobile to a cease. Thomas mentioned the suspect then fled westbound on foot on Freeway 34.
One other trooper then drove forward of the suspect and was in a position to take him into custody with out additional incident. The Nissan was decided to be stolen.
Thomas mentioned your entire pursuit lasted roughly three minutes.
The suspect, Christopher Quick, 22, of Norfolk, was lodged within the Lancaster County Jail on suspicion of possession of stolen property, flight to keep away from arrest, willful reckless driving, obstructing a peace officer, possession of drug paraphernalia and different costs, Thomas mentioned. The Saunders County Sheriff’s Workplace has extra costs in opposition to Quick associated to the alleged gasoline station theft.
Quick additionally had an lively warrant out of Madison County.
Quick pleaded responsible to possession of a managed substance in December in Madison County and started the Northeast Nebraska Grownup Drug Courtroom program.
On Feb. 28, in keeping with court docket paperwork, Quick lower off an digital monitor he had been carrying and discontinued contact with a drug court docket officer, each of which had been violations of his drug court docket contract.
District Choose James Kube signed a warrant for Quick’s arrest on Thursday.