PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who apparently stole a mail truck in Portland led law enforcement officers on an Interstate 5 chase that ended with her capture near La Center, Wash.
The neighborhood-sized mail truck reportedly hit speeds as high as 70 mph. Washington State Patrol troopers eventually set out tire spikes. The State Patrol says the woman was arrested at about 8 p.m. Thursday at a gas station after she tried to run from the truck.
State Patrol spokesman Sgt. Thomas Butsch says U.S. Postal Service maintenance crews were working on the truck in the service’s northwest Portland complex and had left the keys in it when the woman apparently jumped in and took off.
Portland police Detective Mary Wheat says city officers responding to an erratic driving call at about 7:30 p.m. tried to stop the truck but the driver got away and headed north on I-5.