Riding with Joe

I was going to sleep in a little this morning because my computer forensic's class was done. But I was woken up by my step-dad. I worked on getting up. I was going to go to Whatcom County, but I decided that I would feel bad if I did not report into work.

So I went to work at about ten am. I worked until two pm. I chatted with Terry about a few things. I also went to lunch with Brian, Jon, and Jim. We went to the three pigs BBQ.

I took off and the ride up there was sort of slow. The traffic on I-Four-Oh-Five freeway was packed. In and around Everett was the worst. I called Joe and let him know I was on my way. I would be there at about four o'clock pm. He said he would be at one of their satellite offices. I got in right about four pm, like I expected. When I got there he came out and greeted me. It was good to see him. He was wearing green BDU top and bottoms. Their patches were black. His uniform looked good. He looked good still. I was so happy to see him. We have been friends for many years, but he now lives about seven hours from me so I don't get to see him very often.

We started by driving on some of the rural roads. We got a call to be on the look out for a Canadian car that was passing illegally and driving fast. We saw it and turned on them. We got up to about eighty to catch up to them. We pulled them over and gave them a warning.

Then we went really far out into the county. We cruised on the roads. Joe would run his radar but he did not pull people over unless they were doing about fourteen or more over the limit. We also stopped as a fire station because he had to deal with a couple people on a theft case.

We were on the road again and we started to head back towards Bellingham. We were looking to get some food. We went to a place called the Hawaiian Hut. We had some good food. Then we left from there and Joe was going to show me some property he is looking at buying.

We were heading East on B*** Blvd nearing the stop sign at the B*** Blvd and J**** Road intersection. A black colored car in front of us turned right on to B**** Rd without coming to a complete stop. The driver of the black car then took another right turn and headed West on E**** Street.

Joe attempted to keep up with the black car. Joe doing about fifty to sixty and was unable to gain ground on the black car. The black car continued on E**** Street past the C**** Street intersection. We hit the intersection and there was a huge drop off on the road. The front of the car hit the road hard. We kept going. The black car quickly weaved around several cars parked on the roadway. The cars caused the roadway to be nearly impassable. We almost got stuck in a ditch, but were able to make our way out of it. Actually on the right rear tire was in it.

About 100 feet past those cars the hill flattens out. The black car pulled to the left side of the road. I could see one person in the driver seat and a dog in the car. Joe took off his seatbelt and quickly got out of his patrol car. The man in the black car came to a complete stop. His car door flew open and the man from the car took off running perpendicular to his car. His car was facing Eastbound he ran Southbound. Joe was yelling at the driver of the black car to stop. The driver of the black car did not listen to Joe's command; instead he continued to run.

Joe started to chase after the driver from the black car. They ran down a small hillside beside the house where the driver of the black car stopped his car. The driver of the black car ran behind the house and was heading Eastbound. I saw Joe round the same corner and I could see he was about to fall down.

Joe did fall down. The suspect fell and slid through some sticker bushes. The guy got up and jumped a fence. Joe went through the hole in the sticker bushes the guy made and jumped the fence.

I saw Joe come out on the street a few houses down. He lost the bad guy. Then some people who were at a party at near the house Joe was at pointed that the bad guy had ran down the hill. A couple people at the party also gave chase and had cornered him.

Joe got down there and the guy ran into a garage. They got into a fight in the garage and Joe sprayed the guy with pepperspray. He got the guy outside and tried to cuff him. The guy was still fighting. Joe finally got him cuffed and held the guy down with the help of one of the people who gave chase from the party. Some back up units came and they put the guy in the patrol car.

A few minutes later a sergeant from the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office and a couple deputies came back to the black car. The sergeant found someone to take care of the dog that was in the black car. The sergeant and the local neighbor took the dog from the black car. At that time the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office members took control of the black car.

They found all sorts of illegal things in the car. As it turns out the guy was a major dirtbag. He was a felon. He had about fifteen felonies to add to his list after this situation. Starting with the Felony Elude and going on from there.

During the situation Joe hurt himself. We had to go to the hospital and get X-rays for him. We sat in the ER for about two and a half hours. He got X-rays and it showed that nothing was broken. I had to fill out all of Joe's forms because he could not use his hand.

After the hospital we went back to the station and he turned in some paperwork. I saw a list of all the felonies they were going to add to this guy. It was long. I filled out another form for Joe and then he took me to my car. I took a photo of Joe with his car and then headed home. It was another two hours to get home and I had to get up early for a ride along with Bellevue PD.