Eluding suspects plead guilty

SANDPOINT — Guilty pleas have been entered in the cases of two brothers who led authorities on a high-speed chase through western Bonner County last fall.

Timothy John Coy, 17, admitted his guilt through a plea agreement which moved the felony eluding charge from 1st District Court to juvenile court, court documents show. Travis Scott Coy, 20, also entered into a plea agreement, but his reduced the eluding charge to a misdemeanor.

The younger Coy’s disposition hearing, the juvenile court equivalent of a sentencing hearing, is scheduled for March 24. The elder Coy was sentenced on Feb. 19. Senior District Judge James Michaud imposed a 90-day sentence, with 78 days suspended and credit for 12 days served, records show.

The pair were arrested following a pre-dawn chase which began in Priest River and ended in Oldtown, when the Mitsubishi Eclipse Timothy Coy was reportedly driving crashed into a field. The brothers fled the scene on foot, but were later apprehended, a deputy’s report said.

The brothers reportedly initiated the Oct. 4, 2008, pursuit by speeding away from a traffic stop related to a disorderly conduct investigation in Priest River. Speeds reached 65 mph through residential areas and escalated to nearly 100 mph on Old Priest River Road, the report said.

In an unrelated but contemporaneous eluding case, Jackson Ahern Colby of Newport, Wash., utilized a plea agreement to resolve his case.

Colby, 19, pleaded guilty to a Sept. 19, 2008, vehicle burglary in exchange for the dismissal of an eluding charge on the same date. Colby allegedly fled a traffic stop in Oldtown and was chased across the border into Washington. He crashed the vehicle he was driving and tried to get away on foot by hopping a fence, the arrest report said.

Colby ignored warnings to halt and was hit with a Tazer in midair, according to the report.

An alleged accomplice, Jesse W. Stockman, 52, was also charged in connection with the chase, although his case file remains sealed by court order, an indication that he could be the subject of an arrest warrant.