MARYSVILLE — A 21-year-old Mukilteo man was arrested Thursday night after crashing a stolen SUV into the back of a pickup truck stalled in a southbound lane of Highway 529.
The accident closed the bridge over the Snohomish River between Marysville and Everett for about an hour and 15 minutes.
The driver of the truck ran out of gas on the bridge around 7:20 p.m. and left his stranded vehicle blocking the lane while he went to get gas, said Lt. Greg Lineberry with the Everett Police Department.
Everett police officer Suzanne Eviston was on her way to check out the stranded truck when a Nissan Pathfinder about six cars in front of her slammed into the back of it.
When she ran up to investigate the accident, she found both vehicles empty. When she called in the license plates, she learned the Pathfinder had been stolen.
Part of a K-9 unit, Eviston got German shepherd Axle out of the patrol car and began tracking the Pathfinder driver. The dog led her to a man who was hiding under the bridge. He was covered in glass and had minor cuts from the crash.
The man was arrested on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle and on outstanding warrants for possession of stolen property and driving with a suspended license.
After being treated at a hospital, the man was booked into the Snohomish County Jail Thursday night, Lineberry said.
Arlington
Year-old fatal accident leads to charge: A 27-year-old Arlington man was charged with vehicular homicide Thursday for a head-on crash on Highway 9 that ended another man’s life on Christmas Eve 2000.
Matthew Scott Evans was drunk and speeding toward oncoming traffic in a no-passing zone when his 1991 GMC pickup truck slammed into a 1986 Mustang driven by Kenneth Robert Roodzant, 46, on Dec. 24 last year, prosecutors allege in documents filed in Snohomish County Superior Court.
Roodzant hit his brakes and his car slid about 30 feet after the truck suddenly appeared in his path as he rounded a curve on the highway, deputy prosecutor Randy Yates said in court papers. Roodzant, a component engineer and owner of a construction company, died at the scene.
Witnesses said Evans had been in a fight with his girlfriend and was chasing her car along the highway, passing other vehicles at speeds of at least 70 mph. He was in a no-passing zone, and tests showed he had a blood alcohol level about double the legal limit at the time of the collision, the prosecutor alleged.
Everett
Man assaulted: A 38-year-old man suffered severe head injuries during a robbery attempt on Casino Road Thursday morning, police said.
The man told his roommate that four males tried to rob him as he walked along the road sometime before 9:50 a.m., Everett police Sgt. Boyd Bryant said.
The man was suffering from a head wound, and at one point he stopped breathing, police said. An Everett Fire Department aid unit arrived, and the man was airlifted to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center.
The department’s major crimes unit is investigating the case. Investigators are seeking any witnesses to the incident. Anyone with information on the assault may call the police department’s tip line at 425-257-8450.
From Herald staff reports
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