18-year-old arrested after clocking 100 mph
NANCE BESTON | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 months, 3 weeks AGO
MOSES LAKE – Grant County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 18-year-old Marco Martinez-Valencia of Moses Lake at around 1:15 a.m. Sunday.
“A state trooper witnessed him driving over 100 miles per hour, radioed to their dispatch, and their State Patrol dispatch notified deputies that a car was heading to Moses Lake at a high rate of speed and one of our deputies made a traffic stop,” GCSO Public Information Officer Kyle Foreman said.
Martinez-Valencia tried to run from a deputy who had stopped him for driving over 100 miles per hour in a 2017 Ford Mustang on State Route 17 near Moses Lake. Foreman said he was then boxed in by deputies and taken into custody.
Martinez-Valencia was lodged in Grant County Jail for attempting to elude police.
“He didn’t hurt anybody or damage anything, so this was the only charge that applied,” Foreman said. “Had he injured someone, the charges would have been more serious.”
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