Kirkland teen arrested after chase, crash on I-405
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Sheriff's deputies used a helicopter to help track down a 15-year-old Kirkland boy who is suspected of driving drunk and leading police on a chase Saturday night.
King County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindi West said the pursuit began about 9 p.m. when a deputy spotted a van with no lights on driving erratically in the southbound lanes of Interstate 405.
When the deputy tried to stop the van, the driver sped off and eventually crashed into a barrier near the ramp to SE 8th Street in Bellevue.
The driver ran from the van and tried to hide in a Public Storage facility east of the freeway. But he was easily spotted by a sheriff's helicopter that was overhead and equipped with an infrared camera.
As you can see in the video above, the crew in the helicopter was able to track the teen and guide police on the ground to where he was hiding.
No one was hurt, and West said the teenager was booked into the Youth Service Center.
Well this is not entirely true! this young man him my car and I was hurt and so was my car.  Thank God this wasn't more serious  I have to say that Cindy West must not be have been listening to her victim at the scene
Hopefully some physical harm will come to it soon. Â
If this had happened in Auburn, many posts would read "typical Auburn."Â Kids are out causing trouble everywhere.
15 year old drunk driver? Can't start early enough I guess. One day he will be a wonderful addition to the WA correctional facility system
heh!!! FLIR cameras kick ass!! No where to run :)
Thank you PARENTS for bringing such a wonderful child into our human race. I am sure that you are proud and feel that his actions today will somehow disappear if you continue to keep your heads .......see where I'm going with this? :o)
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@deadcandance Very true. I have friends dealing with a "defiant child". Some kids just choose to make bad choices and not listen. At this age they really do think they know everything. I am glad noone was hurt or killed.
Nice job, gotta love the FLIR system
Let's cane the little punk!
This is nothing compared to the 7 and 11 year old kids who tried to carjack a woman with a loaded gun in Portland.Â
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It's on KATU's website. Wonder why KOMO hasn't run the story here considering that the national media have picked it up.
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 Let me share with you the potential that could have happened to my family if this had been worse. I am 63 going home form work and with his poor choice in behavior I now have a vehicle I should be able to have fixed and medical bills I shouldn't have to pay but his mother has decided to say her car was stolen and with out her permission. has no responsibililty to help me throught her insurance.  talk about enabling behavor in my mind she is responsibilie and he should be taken to a morgue to see what he easliy could have caused. Â
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you are very lucky Mr. Â Dorian Thomas that I am not hurt worse or dead because my grandaughters would have been destroyed by your actions......
Well I wouldn't exactly say this was nothing. It certainly had the potential to be much worse, he could have injured or even killed a lot of people while driving like that. Which is why he should get much more than just a few days in the youth service center and a slap on the wrist.Â
Bad boy, bad boy. An extremely poor choice, but definitely a deliberate one. Just the beginning of his new-found career, I fear....
Getting started off on the wrong foot in so many ways. Now he will find out how little trouble he gets into for such actions and when he's out in a few weeks he'll go right back at it. Great system!!!!!
Youth service center?? Do the crime time to spend some time in the big house!! Charge him as an adult and get him off the streets for a LONG time!! Drive Drunk get Nailed!!
 @bustedupredneck Hammered.
Getting the life of a criminal started at 15. Sad.
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I would guess that this was not a start.