Man Jailed After Multi-County Chase, Standoff on I-80 in Wyoming

A person is behind bars following a high-speed, multi-county automobile chase and SWAT standoff on Interstate 80 in Wyoming late Friday afternoon, the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Workplace says.

Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Jason Mower says it began in Uinta County when a Wyoming Freeway Patrol trooper stopped 52-year-old Washington resident David Eugene Furman close to mile marker 50 east of Lyman.

Mower says when the trooper made contact with Furman, he sped off towards Inexperienced River.

“After efficiently stopping the automobile close to mile marker 85, west of Inexperienced River, Furman, who was touring with an aggressive canine, barricaded himself inside, refusing to adjust to officers and threatening violence in opposition to them,” Mower stated in a media launch.

Mower says round 4 p.m., a joint tactical response crew made up of deputies from the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Workplace and officers from the Inexperienced River and Rock Springs police departments was known as out to assist.

“Through the two-hour standoff, disaster negotiators repeatedly tried to persuade Furman to give up, however he refused,” stated Mower.

“At round 5:45 p.m., because the SWAT crew ready to deploy chemical munitions into his automobile, Furman determined to provide himself up and was taken into custody with out damage and with out additional incident,” Mower added.

Furman was subsequently booked into the Sweetwater County Detention Heart, the place he is being held with out bond awaiting his preliminary court docket look.

Mower says additional particulars as to the circumstances prompting the incident haven’t been launched because the case stays underneath energetic investigation by the Wyoming Freeway Patrol.

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