MOSES LAKE, Wash. (16APR2014) - Two people are in jail and two stolen vehicles were recovered yesterday after several Grant County law enforcement officers corralled the pair while they were trying to flee on a stolen motorcycle.
A local resident called 9-1-1 around 9:30 a.m. Apr. 15 to report he was following his Chevrolet truck which was stolen on Apr. 14. The truck’s owner followed the truck for several miles around the area of Roads Q and 3 Northeast. At a potato shed near Roads 3 and S-Northeast, the truck’s owner saw the truck’s two occupants take a motorcycle out of the bed of the truck and drive away in the field. The truck’s owner then continued to follow the pair as they tried to get away through fields and over canal roads. A sheriff’s office 4x4 pickup joined the chase through the fields.
By now, other sheriff’s deputies, Moses Lake police officers and Warden police had surrounded the field, and waited until the pair crashed the motorcycle in a field near the 1500 block of Road T-Northeast. Officers rushed the pair and arrested them. Neither suspect was hurt.
Richard B. Ferguson and Melissa Jo Ferguson of Moses Lake are lodged in the Grant County Jail. Each faces charges of two counts of possession of stolen vehicle. Richard Ferguson also faces charges of felony eluding police.
“This was a great effort by everyone involved,” said Sheriff Tom Jones. “The truck’s owner gave us a play-by-play as he was following his stolen truck, MACC dispatchers kept him and responding officers linked together and up to date, and Warden police and Moses Lake police helped us net the two suspects.”
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