UPDATE, 4:16 p.m.: Suspect in custody.
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UPDATE, 3:58 p.m.: Scanner traffic indicates the suspect’s name is Ian Treadwell, which, coincidentally, is also the name of a Fortuna guy who pulled a runner on cops in roughly the same area back in 2009.
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UPDATE, 3:35 p.m.: Dude hopped a levee and they’ve lost him for the time being.
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UPDATE, 3:26 p.m.: The suspect has left his vehicle and attempted escape on foot. Moments ago, police said that he is swimming a slough. It’s all happening in this marshy neighborhood:
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The scanner is alive right now with a whole bunch of police officers who have chased a runner at high speed through the Loleta Bottoms and so to the beach. After driving at 70 or 80 mph down Loleta surface streets, on the wrong side of the road, the suspect took his rig onto the beach round about Table Bluff and pointed it down toward Crab Park.
Police are summoning 4x4’s to the area.
One call into the station indicated that the chase originated in the Eureka area.
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