A man accused of stealing $18 in lottery tickets from a Thrasher’s Corner convenience store April 24 was charged Wednesday, April 27, with trying to elude a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy during a high-speed chase while his 9-month-old daughter was in the back seat of the car.
Matthew Brian Pilkenton, 25, of Bothell was being held on $10,000 bail.
Deputy prosecutor Chris Dickinson said deputies were looking for the man after the lottery ticket theft and spotted his car in a parking lot in the 19700 block of Filbert Road east of Lynnwood.
A woman was in the passenger seat and his baby girl was in the back seat, Dickinson said.
Pilkenton drove away from the officer, accelerating to 60 mph in a 35-mph zone, Dickinson said. He allegedly drove into oncoming traffic, ran a red light, avoided spike strips laid out by another officer, ran another car into a ditch and nearly overturned on a tight turn, Dickinson said.
The car had mechanical problems and crashed through a chain-link fence in Lynnwood. While the car was still moving, Pilkenton jumped out and ran with the passengers still inside, Dickinson said.
This story was compiled by staff at The Herald in Everett.
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