Crime & Safety
Peninsula Man Sentenced For Injuring Deputy During Pursuit
BREAKING: The 25-year-old also has to pay $23,000 to victims whose cars he hit during the chase.
SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA – A San Bruno man was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday for assaulting deputies while leading them on a high-speed pursuit through San Mateo County earlier this year, prosecutors said.
In addition to the five-year, four-month sentence, 25-year-old Alexander Reyes was ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution to five victims whose cars he hit during the pursuit, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Reyes was found in the Canada College parking lot at 4200 Farm Hill Blvd. near Redwood City just after midnight on March 10. He was with two women in a parked white Dodge Durango.
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When a deputy knocked on his window to talk to him, Reyes accelerated in reverse, hit a patrol car, and then drove at the deputy who knocked on the window, prosecutors said.
The deputy drew his weapon but jumped out of the way before he had a chance to shoot. Reyes got onto Interstate Highway 280 and fled at over 100 mph. The California Highway Patrol joined in the pursuit.
Reyes got off the highway at San Bruno Avenue and hit a patrol car head-on. He kept going, hitting five parked cars and a city pole before a wheel fell off the Durango and it came to a stop at the Best Western Plus El Rancho Inn in Millbrae.
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Reyes and the two women passengers fled from the car but were all arrested. Deputies found a methamphetamine pipe in the car as well as court paperwork indicating Reyes was already on parole for a different evading charge from 2014, prosecutors said.
Reyes pleaded no contest to evading police and felony assault in August and was handed the sentence Thursday by Judge Elizabeth Lee, according to Wagstaffe.