Charges filed in ramming of Everett police car
Published 12:01 am Saturday, May 21, 2011
EVERETT — A Snohomish man who was arrested earlier this week after allegedly running over a deputy’s motorcycle also is accused of ramming an Everett police car in January.
Jacob Vike, also known as Jacob Guyor, 37, was being held at Snohomish County Jail this week for investigation of attempted murder. Police say he backed over a police motorcycle in a silver Land Rover while fleeing from a traffic stop Monday in Lake Stevens.
On Thursday, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Sherry King charged Vike with first-degree malicious mischief in connection with the separate Everett case. His bail now stands at $125,000.
An Everett police officer approached Vike on Jan. 14, according to an affidavit filed in Superior Court. Vike was behind the wheel of a silver sport utility vehicle parked in a gravel lot.
The officer took Vike’s information, including a false name Vike allegedly gave him. When the officer ran the name, he found that the man Vike named had a warrant and that some of the information given was false.
The officer started to walk back to the SUV, but Vike had locked his car door and rolled up his window, according to the affidavit. Vike then peeled out of the lot, allegedly ramming the patrol car before taking off, throwing gravel.
The impact crunched the driver’s side of the patrol car, according to the affidavit. The damage was estimated at almost $1,200.
Police had been looking for Vike ever since.
On Monday, a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy pulled over a Land Rover with expired tabs in the city of Lake Stevens. As the deputy dismounted from his motorcycle, the driver threw the SUV into reverse. The motorcycle was knocked beneath the wheels of the SUV and dragged about 100 feet, according to a police affidavit filed in Everett District Court. The deputy wasn’t hit.
A Lake Stevens police officer who heard about the incident remembered what happened in Everett and suggested the suspect could be Vike, according to court records.
Vike also was wanted on a corrections warrant issued Jan. 3. He had failed to report to his community corrections officer in Marysville, corrections spokesman Chad Lewis said Friday.
Vike was under active supervision for a 2009 burglary case in Snohomish County. On Jan. 19, a few days after the Everett police car was rammed, his warrant was picked up by the area’s fugitive apprehension crew, Lewis said.
Records show that Vike has a criminal history dating back 20 years, including attempting to elude police as a juvenile and two adult convictions for resisting arrest. He has been convicted of robbery, assault, burglary and theft, in addition to two dozen misdemeanor driving violations.
His community supervision for the burglary was scheduled to end May 2012.
Rikki King: 425-339-3449; rking@heraldnet.com
