Officers identify three arrested in multiple county chase that ended south of Wichita
Three people from Wichita remained jailed Thursday after a multi-county chase on Wednesday that involved two stolen vehicles being wrecked, including one where the keys were taken from an occupied home in Haysville, officials said.
Arrested were Jacob Aguirre, 29, Ricardo Viveros, 26, and Natalia Michael, 27
Aguirre and Viveros were in Sedgwick County Jail on Thursday on suspicion of criminal possession of a firearm, aggravated burglary and criminal deprivation of property. Michael was arrested on suspicion of interference and aggravated assault on an officer.
Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Benjamin Blick said the incident started at around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday when a trooper with the Kansas Turnpike Authority spotted a stolen pickup traveling north on the Turnpike in Sumner County, a couple of miles from the Sedgwick County line.
The truck was a 2011 Dodge Ram that had been reported stolen in Sedgwick County last week.
The trooper attempted a traffic stop but the driver sped off.
In Sedgwick County, people in the truck threw tools that hit the trooper’s vehicle, Blick said.
The truck hit a tire deflation device during the chase, which ended in a single-vehicle crash on I-35 South. A woman was arrested, but two men ran away.
“Property located (in) the Dodge Ram has been tied to thefts in Sumner County and Kay County, Oklahoma,” Blick said in an email.
Shortly after, two men entered an occupied home in the 8100 block of South Laura, near 79th Street South in Haysville, and took the keys to a 2008 Ford Fusion.
The “owner noticed his vehicle backing out of the driveway and flagged down deputies in the area and alerted them of the theft,” Blick said.
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper spotted the vehicle on 63rd Street South but the driver wouldn’t stop. The trooper performed a tactical vehicle intervention, or TVI, and was able to stop the vehicle on K-15, Blick said. Aguirre and Viveros were taken into custody at the scene.
This story was originally published September 23, 2020 at 9:24 PM.