High-speed chase ends in felony arrests
SANDPOINT - A high-speed chase through western Bonner County early Saturday morning has landed two brothers in jail on felony charges.
Timothy John Coy, 17, and Travis Scott Coy, 20, are charged with eluding a law officer. Travis Coy is also charged providing false information and was wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a prior battery charge.
On Monday, Judge Quentin F. Harden ordered both suspects held on $10,000 bail on the eluding charges, court records show. Public defenders are being appointed to represent the duo.
The brothers managed to elude their pursuers after crashing in a field in Oldtown and continuing their flight on foot. However, they were later apprehended at their home on Old Priest River Road, a sheriff deputy's report said.
A sports coupe containing the brothers was stopped on Ninth Street in Priest River shortly before 2:30 a.m. as part of a disorderly conduct investigation, Deputy Brian Martinez said in his report.
The driver of the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Timothy Coy, denied involvement in the disorderly conduct. The passenger in the car, later identified as Travis Coy, allegedly gave Martinez a false name and date of birth.
When Martinez approached the passenger side of the car, it sped off toward U.S. Highway 2, the report said. Martinez followed the vehicle across the Pend Oreille River to Old Priest River Road, where speeds escalated to 65 mph in a 35 mph zone and nearly a 100 mph in a 45 mph zone, the report said.
The pursuit crossed Highway 41 in Oldtown and continued onto Silverbirch Lane, Solar Road and Estates Road, a dead end. At the end of Estates Road, the coupe went around a pole building, through a fence, over a pile of building materials and into an open field, where it crashed into a downed tree, the report said.
The suspects then got out of the car, split up and fled through the woods, Martinez said in the report.
Travis Coy was wanted on a bench warrant for failing to show up at his arraignment on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from an August 2007 incident at the Priest River skate park, court records said.