A man who led a state trooper on a high-speed chase in a stolen Mercedes Benz early Tuesday morning apparently had second thoughts about his roguish behavior and turned himself in to police.
Abraham Paquet has been arrested for investigation of motor vehicle theft, felony eluding and numerous traffic charges, according to a Colorado Springs police report.
The owner of the 2014 Mercedes Benz reported that the car was stolen to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department on Monday, according to a police report.
Officer Clint Schumm of the Gold Hill was working a construction detail at East Cimarron Street at Interstate 25 at 1:52 a.m. when he stopped a man who had been trying to drive through a closed area of the highway.
But when Schumm approached the luxury car, the suspect bolted, going southbound on I-25 at a high rate of speed, the report says.
A Colorado State Patrol trooper who was also working the construction detail tried to stop the driver, but the suspect kept eluding the officer at high speed, who terminated the pursuit, it says.
The officers ran the car’s plates and discovered that the car had been stolen the day before.
At 2:19 a.m., 27 minutes later, the suspect returned to the construction area and pulled to a stop directly in front of Colorado Springs police officer Juan Flores.
Flores promptly arrested him.
