A New Mexico man is in the Donley County Jail this week on charges of evading arrest and terroristic threat after he ran from law enforcement last Thursday, May 11.
Daniel Adrian Barraza, age 19, of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was still being held on 11,500 bond Tuesday morning.
According to the Donley County Sheriff’s Office, a male subject was reported to have stolen items from Allsup’s and, when confronted by an employee, he stated he would shoot them all if he had a gun.
The subject was gone when Deputy Wes Christopher arrived, but he soon learned the subject was parked in the turning lane on the east end of Clarendon. Christopher located the vehicle and approached the subject, but he said Barraza brandished a box cutter. Christopher drew on the subject and told him to put the box cutter down, which he did, but then he got back in his car and fled.
Deputy Christopher shot out the subject’s left rear tire and then pursued him east on US 287. Sheriff Butch Blackburn got in front of the subject east of Lelia Lake and put the subject’s vehicle in the ditch there. The subject’s vehicle ended up in the creek east of Lelia Lake, and he was apprehended there without incident.
He was arraigned Friday by Justice of the Peace Sarah Hatley with bond set at $10,000 for evading with a motor vehicle and $1,500 for terroristic threat.
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