EVERETT — A Snohomish County man has been sentenced to prison after using a stolen Jeep like a bulldozer last year, ramming parked cars and speeding through neighborhoods in an attempt to escape arrest.
Ilya Nikolayaeich Denisiuk, 29, was sentenced earlier this month to nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to elude, identity theft and possessing stolen property.
The eluding felony unfolded after a Monroe police officer made a traffic stop for a suspected stolen vehicle in a supermarket parking lot Oct. 16.
The officer reported that he could see the Jeep “lurch up and down as it moved into the small gap between … two vehicles and push them to one side, and could hear a loud crunch as it first made contact, then scraping as it punched through.”
One of the parked vehicles was unoccupied. The other had four people inside, including three children. No one was hurt.
The Jeep blasted through a red light at U.S. 2 and hit speeds of at least 50 mph along residential streets. Denisiuk was sniffed out by a police dog after bailing from the Jeep and trying to hide along the banks of the nearby Skykomish River, according to court papers.
At the time, he had six felony convictions and two warrants for his arrest.
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