A Wasilla man was arrested overnight Monday, after Alaska State Troopers said he led them on a vehicle chase through a residential area that ended in a fiery crash.
Troopers said that they tried to stop a gold Jeep Cherokee, driven by 34-year-old Joseph Marquis, at about 9:45 p.m. Monday in Wasilla’s Cottonwood Loop subdivision. According to an online dispatch, the stop was prompted by troopers “observing the license plates were registered to a different vehicle.”
“The vehicle failed to yield at speeds of over 60 mph in a 25-mph residential zone, drove in the wrong lane of travel, and ran a stop sign,” troopers wrote. “After several miles the vehicle reached the end of a dead-end road where it left the roadway and launched over a steep embankment. Upon coming to a rest at the bottom, a distance of about 80 feet, the vehicle burst into flames and (Marquis) fled on foot.”
Marquis was later found by troopers, who took him into custody on charges of first-degree eluding and misuse of license plates. He was held at the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility on $5,000 bail.
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