An Arcata Police Department officer chased a fleeing driver at speeds up to 60 miles per hour through the Arcata Bottoms and the Manila area last night.

For reasons as yet unknown, the driver of a black Nissan Sentra pulled away from the officer who had attempted to stop her on Upper Bay Road at about 8:30 p.m. The officer took chase, eventually winding up on Highway 255 headed toward Manila. The driver turned off on Lupin Drive and fled the scene on foot.

Meanwhile, numerous Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputies and officers from the California Highway Patrol showed up at Lupin Drive to assist in the search. Last night’s scanner traffic indicates that the APD had taken one person — the passenger — into custody shortly after the vehicle chase ended, but it is not clear whether that person was charged or booked into jail.

Calls to the Arcata Police Department regarding this incident were not returned.

The primary object of the foot search, though, was the driver of the vehicle — a woman who, at the very least, shares a name with an Arcata resident with a record of arrests for burglary, possession of stolen property and possession of methamphetamine.

We’re not sure whether the officers ever found her last night, but her name does not appear in today’s booking logs. A Lost Coast Outpost reader told us last night that officers were still searching in a field near his home at 9:30 p.m.

Audio of the beginning of the chase follows:

Audio