{"id":50357,"date":"2019-07-09T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/slow-speed-chase-ends-in-crash\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:20:00","slug":"slow-speed-chase-ends-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/slow-speed-chase-ends-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow speed chase ends in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to multiple calls of reckless driving, Juneau Police Department officers became involved in a car chase that ended with several collisions and over $10,000 in damages Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from the department, at about 3:31 p.m. Sunday, JPD received several complaints about a black pickup truck in the area of Mendenhall Loop Road and Egan Drive. The truck, described as an older model Chevrolet, was swerving and driving well below the speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>Officers pursued the vehicle in a slow speed chase with the truck driving into oncoming lanes and over sidewalks, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Spike strips were used at the intersection of Mendenhall Loop Road and Glacier Spur Road. In an attempt to avoid the strips, the truck swerved and crashed into a parked police car. The trucks rear tires were damaged by the spikes but the driver still refused to stop, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>On the 4300 block of Mendenhall Loop Road, police said it appeared that the driver of the truck was attempting to ram into a gold colored SUV. One of the pursuing officers was able to pull in between the truck and the SUV, causing the truck to crash into the officer&rsquo;s vehicle and ending the chase.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1487310934854544%2Fphotos%2Fa.1521953094723661%2F2276812289237734%2F%3Ftype%3D3&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"560\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the truck was arrested and identified as 31-year-old Brandon James Gee, of Juneau. Gee was charged with seven crimes, four of them felonies, including assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The release noted that a JPD officer received minor injuries to his hand during the pursuit, and that damages to JPD vehicles is estimated to be about $7,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reckless driver leads police on pursuit, ends in crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":50358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[59],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-50357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50357"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}