Deputy, officer bring abrupt end to chase

SANDPOINT — A Bonner County sheriff’s deputy and a Ponderay Police officer brought an abrupt end to a high-speed chase before it could reach Sandpoint’s tourist-clotted streets on Sunday morning.

The episode began unfolding shortly before 7 a.m. when a Glengary Bay resident reported that a sport utility vehicle was tearing up his yard and pathway.

Deputy Chris Bonner spotted the SUV on Sagle Road and initiated a traffic stop, according to the arrest report. The driver of the Kia Sorento stopped, but then sped off west toward U.S. Highway 95. Speeds reached 60 mph in the 35 mph zone and another deputy deployed a tire-deflating spike strip at Lignite Road, but the driver swerved around it.

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