Police arrest SLO County teen suspected of reckless driving, DUI. See the high-speed chase
Arroyo Grande police arrested an 18-year-old Friday night after he was allegedly driving recklessly and tried to flee a traffic stop.
According to an Instagram post from the Arroyo Grande Police Department, at around 9:35 p.m., police pulled over car that was “being driving recklessly.” The driver — later identified as Jesse Ray Sights, 18, of Arroyo Grande — gave the police officer a false name before fleeing from the traffic stop in his car “at a high rate of speed,” the post said.
The post included video footage showing the moment the car allegedly fled the traffic stop and the high-speed chase that pursued. An officer could be heard in the video saying “the subject has fled the scene. He is southbound on Elm. It’s a gray Infinity, now on Poplar.”
During the pursuit, Sights stopped his vehicle several times and officers tried to contact him, according to the post.
The Police Department said Sights repeatedly ignored commands to exit the vehicle. Eventually he stopped and was taken into custody with the assistance of the California Highway Patrol, according to the post.
Sights was arrested and booked into the San Luis Obispo County Jail on Saturday morning around 12:34 a.m. on suspicion of charges of evading peace officer, reckless driving, drunk driving and false representation of identity to police officer.
Sights also received a DUI for being under the influence of alcohol, the post said.
As of Sunday, Sights was still in custody with bail set at $50,000, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office’s Who’s in Custody website.
