March 28, 2023
By News Director Jared Atha
A Weatherford man was arrested and charged in Custer County recently after leading police on a high speed pursuit through residential streets.
According to court records, 41-year-old Alex Ray Palmer was charged on March 20 with one felony county of endangering others while eluding a police officer after being arrested on March 18 for the alleged crime.
A probable cause affidavit showed that the incident began when Weatherford Police attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle in the parking lot of a car wash. It was then that police said the vehicle spun out, and fled the parking lot at a high rate of speed.
Police would pursue the vehicle where at times speeds reached in excess of 85 miles per hour and at one point had become airborne and causing sparks when the vehicle landed.
Ultimately police had to suspend the pursuit, however a vehicle matching the suspect vehicle had been pulled over by a trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol on the east side of Weatherford.
When police arrived they determined that the suspect in custody, Palmer, matched their description of the man who had led them on the chase earlier in the night.
Palmer was eventually booked into the Custer County Jail.
His first court date is scheduled for April 3.
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