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CR police help end I-5 chase

Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:55 AM PDT

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Castle Rock police used a spike strip to help a Washington State Patrol trooper stop a driver he pursued nearly 25 miles down Interstate-5.

Cameo R. Rochester, 32, of McKenna, Wash., was booked into the Lewis County Jail. She faces charges of driving while intoxicated and attempting to elude a police officer. 

According to the state patrol, Trooper Russ Hanson clocked Rochester's vehicle at 92 mph southbound on I-5 near milepost 74, near Centralia, at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Hanson, who was in a marked patrol car, got behind Rochester's 1997 Nissan Pathfinder and turned on his lights and siren, but she didn't pull over, according to the state patrol. Hanson said the vehicle's speed varied from 60 to 95 mph as he followed it toward Cowlitz County.

At the Lewis-Cowlitz county line, Castle Rock police set out a spike strip which punctured three of the Pathfinder's tires. The car rolled to a stop on the shoulder at milepost 50.

Hanson said that Rochester was hostile and refused to unlock her vehicle, so he broke out the side window of the Pathfinder with his baton and took Rochester into custody.

Rochester told Hanson she knew he was behind her, but she didn't want to stop and had intended to drive to her sister's house in Oregon, the state patrol said. 

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free spirit wrote on Feb 7, 2008 1:19 AM:

" If they were in bad condition , it would seam that the neighbor who saw them in the woods would have immediately rescued them, and asked questions later. Obviously they were not in bad condition, only crates(not a crime) or carriers. Maybe he did take his animals with him on a trip. I have taken mine before,and know many people who take thiers along(even in RVs. Sounds like extreme tree huggers to me. Or maybe the PETA people who think a dog should never be crated.I guess it is more humane to go to dog shows and let other peoples dogs out in protest to them bieng in thier crates. I guess if this results in them getting hit by a car, lost, or running at large , this is acceptable. Most vet's require that an animal is crated in the waiting area. I hear no mention of whether or not they had food, or water. I think the humane society also must have someting better to do than chase after a guy and 18 dogs that are not in unsavory condition, even by the accounts of the neighbor who saw them in the woods. If they were in bad condition shame on that neighbor for leaving them there. "

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