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On the way home, after picking the boy up from school he and I became mesmerized by 15 cop cars accompanied by 2 motor-cops. With their collective lights flashing in an eye catching fashion, sirens screaming their urgent message this high speed motorcade raced past us. After they blew past like rushing wind, I said to the boy "we need to get home and turn on the TV to see what is going on". He looked at me and replies "we need to get home and lock down because our end of the valley is now stripped". He had an excellent point there, don't ya think? I didn't even know we had that many cops in our end of the valley. Go figure, eh?

The News Story, Thus Far:

Police chasing Colorado fugitive in East Valley
A federal fugitive has surrendered to authorities tonight after evading them for more than four hours. Authorities began chasing the Colorado man through the East Valley at about 2:30 p.m. The suspect was cornered in a field in Mecca and eventually gave himself up.

Riverside County Sheriff's deputies from Indio and La Quinta and the California Highway Patrol began chasing a maroon Ford F-350 through the East Valley after a report from the U.S. Marshals Serive that the man was a fugitive wanted for questioning in the attempted murder of his 10-year-old son.

According to Jimell Griffin, spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's office in Los Angeles the man is wanted for questioning in the attempted murder of his 10-year-old son and also for the disappearance of his ex-wife's daughter.

Identified as Scott Lee Kimball, 39, he is accused of fleeing Colorado in January, violating federal parole on securities fraud. The chase, which reached speeds as high as 80 mph travelled down Jefferson Street in La Quina, past Coachella Valley High School at a high rate of speed and on to the rural area near Ave. 66 near Thermal.

Law enforcement vehicles followed the truck as it did slow circles in a date palm grove outside Thermal and Riverside County Sheriff's confirm that they have set up a perimeter near Mecca.

U.S. Marshals out of Denver notified U.S. Marshals in Riverside that Kimball might be in Palm Springs. He has relatives in Bermuda Dunes. The Riverside U.S. Marshals tracked him down in Bermuda Dunes at about 2:30 p.m. when the chase began.

CHP aircraft monitored the chase and traffic was diverted at Avenue 66.

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