The details of last week's crime spree in our sleepy little town are now becoming public.  Well, it may not have been a crime spree per se, but it's not every day the cops get to chase bad guys through town.

Through reading the story in the paper and talking to a sheriff I know, I have found out that the chase started when the cops received an anonymous tip about the passenger in the vehicle, a man with a felony warrant out for his arrest.  Seems he is a well known bank robber from the Porland area, and is also busy with such things as identity theft and fraud.  The pair drove through town for over ten minutes (and pretty much covered  all the main streets), never really going over the speed limit.  After I saw them head over the hill, they turned onto what was fortunately a dead end road.  She rammed into one of the cop cars, and the guy got out and tried to run off into a field.  He was brought down with a tazer gun.  I bet the cops were excited they got to use that!!!  At the time the story was written, the cops were still waiting for a warrant to look into the u-haul trailer.

It turns out, however, that the woman may be in even bigger trouble than the bank robber guy now.  Not only was she driving a vehicle and attempting to elude police officers, when they caught her she had a chunk of meth on her person that was "as big as your fist" and she was "as high as a kite" during the chase.  I guess she just laughed at the cops when they caught her.  The sheriff I spoke to said it was fortunate they didn't know their way around the area very well, and that they turned down that dead end.  He chuckled and mentioned that one might want to make sure they know their way around before taking up a new career.  She's going to have a long, long, time to think about her choice of friends and lack of road map.  Not to mention the real pleasant withdrawl she's probably experiencing right about now.  Eww.

I'm glad that nobody was injured during the whole debacle, especially considering the driver's physical and mental state at the time.  It's kind of a reminder that you really have no idea about the other people driving around out there.  Cheery thought, eh?