An Alaska State Trooper K-9 helped nab a wanted Anchorage man who tried to flee from authorities in a vehicle and collided with a car in Wasilla.
Saturday evening, troopers pulled over 37-year-old Thomas Halton at the Parks Highway and Frontage Road for equipment violations, according to an online AST dispatch posted Sunday.
Halton allegedly provided false information to authorities to avoid apprehension on outstanding warrants for probation/parole violations on original charges of homicide, second-degree murder and evidence tampering. When a trooper tried to get him out of the 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier he was in, Halton drove off.
During a vehicle chase along the Parks Highway, troopers say Halton collided with a 2004 Toyota Camry and then ran away. The driver of the car Halton hit suffered minor injuries and was taken to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center.
K-9 Helo caught Halton, the dispatch says, and the 37-year-old was arrested. In addition to the outstanding warrants, Halton was also arrested for two counts of failure to stop at the direction of an officer, reckless driving, resisting arrest, false information, third-degree assault and reckless endangerment.