###

It may look fun in movies, but fleeing from police didn’t provide much of an action sequence for the driver of a back-bumperless Kia in Eureka this morning. 

KSLG Program Director Sabina Gallier, our coworker here at Lost Coast Communications, Inc., was outside Redwood Capital Bank on G Street when she saw a Eureka Police Department patrol vehicle pull over the driver, who initially complied before opting to floor it.

“All of a sudden, the white car takes off like a bullet with the cop [following] right after it,” Gallier reports. “It didn’t get far.”

Three additional EPD units were located just a couple of blocks away on I Street, across from the Zwerdling Law Firm. The driver, finding herself suddenly outnumbered and outflanked, thought better of her fugitive routine and pulled over again.

We reached out to EPD Public Information Officer Laura Montagna, who said the driver, Yarah Chomicki-Tolan, was arrested and booked for flight from a traffic officer. A passenger in the vehicle, Hakim Porter, was also arrested for a probation violation.