$100,000 bail set for driver arrested after high-speed chase

EVERETT — A man accused of leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase Monday from Lake Stevens through north Everett told officers he smoked methamphetamine earlier in the day and drank alcohol during the pursuit, according to police reports.

A judge set bail for Thaddeus A. Sullivan, 38, at $100,000 on Tuesday.

He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree assault, attempting to elude police and unlawful possession of a firearm. The suspect is accused of trying to run over a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy late Monday morning in the 1600 block of N. Machias Road east of Lake Stevens.

The chase headed across the U.S. 2 trestle into Everett. The car blew a tire on the Lake Stevens side of the trestle, but the driver kept going on the deflated tire, deputies said.

The chase ended in north Everett when a deputy rammed the green sedan, causing it to spin out and stall. Before then, the car was driven through the Everett Community College campus and crashed through a security gate.

The suspect told deputies that he hadn’t tried to run over the deputy “but when he got scared his foot slipped and hit the gas,” according to a police report.

He said he was too scared to stop after he pulled away.

In a police report, the deputy who first approached the car near Lake Stevens described seeing suspected drug paraphernalia in the vehicle. That’s when the car accelerated and the officer had to move out of its path to avoid being struck. The officer said the driver then circled around and came at him again, according to the police report that was included in court papers.

The deputy reported seeing items he suspected to be narcotics tossed from the window during the chase.

A passenger, 22, was booked for investigation of obstruction and rendering criminal assistance.

Sullivan was taken to a hospital for medical attention. He had been shot in the arm with an electronic stun gun.

Two students at the college were uninjured when the Jeep they were riding in was struck by a patrol car driven by a sheriff’s deputy.

Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com.

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