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2 in jail following Moses Lake chase

Herald Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 7 months AGO
by Herald Staff WriterJoe Utter
| April 18, 2014 6:00 AM

MOSES LAKE - A vehicle pursuit through fields near Moses Lake Tuesday landed two in jail after a resident saw the two allegedly driving his stolen truck then flee on a stolen motorcycle.

About 9:30 a.m., a Moses Lake resident called 911 to report he was following his Chevrolet truck allegedly stolen Monday from rural Moses Lake.

The resident followed the truck for several miles near the area of Roads Q and 3 Northeast.

At one point, the two suspects, identified as Richard B. Ferguson, 33, and Melissa Jo Eaton, 33, both of Quincy, exited the truck at a potato shed near Roads 3 and S Northeast, according to the sheriff's office.

Ferguson and Eaton then allegedly took a motorcycle, reported stolen out of Royal City, out of the bed of the truck and drove away through a field. The truck's owner continued to follow the suspects as they tried to flee through fields and over canal roads.

A sheriff's deputy in a 4X4 truck joined the chase through the field while Moses Lake and Warden police surrounded the field awaiting the suspects, who eventually crashed the motorcycle in a field near the 1500 block of Road T Northeast.

Police rushed to the pair and both were arrested. Neither suspect was hurt in the crash, according to the sheriff's office.

Ferguson and Eaton were booked into Grant County Jail and face charges of two counts of possession of a stolen vehicle. Ferguson also faces a felony eluding charge.

"This was a great effort by everyone involved," Sheriff Tom Jones said. "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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