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Shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday, the Eureka Police Department sent at least nine units to E Street, just south of the intersection with Humboldt Street, in response to a “slow-speed pursuit” following a traffic violation. The driver of a late-model black Corvette had barricaded himself in his car, blasting music from the car stereo while acting erratically, according to EPD spokesperson Laura Montagna.

E Street was closed to through traffic as numerous armed officers and the K-9 unit closed in on the vehicle, with officers shouting commands to the man inside. At one point, an officer deployed pepper spray toward the suspect, who was detained shortly thereafter. The man was belligerent, shouting curses and insults at the officers as he was loaded into a patrol vehicle. 

After a few of the cop cars had left the scene, an officer told one bystander that the suspect had been taken to St. Joseph Hospital to be medically cleared. 

The officers who remained on the scene searched the Corvette. Montagna said that after being released from the hospital, the suspect will be booked for misdemeanor failure to yield and resisting arrest. There will be more information on this incident tomorrow.