High-speed pursuit leads to arrest

WALLACE — A Wallace man under the influence of drugs was taken into custody Sunday night after leading Shoshone County Sheriff's Deputies on a high-speed pursuit across much of the Silver Valley.

SCSO Undersheriff Holly Lindsey tells the News-Press that around 9 p.m. that night, dispatch received a call requesting a well-fair check be made on a Frankie Hyatt, 38, due to their belief that he was high on methamphetamine and may be a threat to his wife living in Wallace (whom he may have a no-contact order with).

SCSO deputies responded to the wife's home not long after the call came in and within minutes of their arrival, Hyatt was spotted leaving the home at a high rate of speed. Initially heading west on Silver Valley Road, deputies attempted to initiate a traffic stop on Hyatt, but had no success as he attempted to elude them while driving with no headlights on.

Hyatt then entered onto Interstate 90 at the Silverton on-ramp and continued to try and lose the pursuing deputies, reaching speeds up to 100 mph at certain points.

The chase finally came to an end in Kellogg, where Hyatt exited off the freeway and parked in the Shoshone Medical Center Parking lot. Though he tried, he was not able to gain entree to the building, as the doors were locked.

After failing a field sobriety test, Hyatt was taken into custody without further incident and transported to the Shoshone County Jail. While there, detention deputies had to administer Naloxone (or Narcan) to Hyatt to counteract a drug overdose.

Hyatt was booked for charges of eluding an officer and driving recklessly, but Sheriff Gunderson explains that further charges will most likely be added.

"Thankfully it was a good outcome," he said. "No one got hurt and there wasn't too much danger to the public — other than him driving with his headlights off at a high-rate of speed at night."