Box-truck chase from Battle Ground to Portland ends with crash, DV suspect’s arrest

A Vancouver man wanted for a prior domestic violence incident was arrested Friday morning after Clark County sheriff’s deputies say he led them on a chase from Battle Ground to Portland in a box truck.

Deputies responded at about 1 a.m. after Brett Chauncey, 55, was reported to have entered the victim’s property in rural Battle Ground.

The sheriff’s office said Chauncey was wanted on suspicion of second-degree assault and first-degree malicious mischief, both domestic violence allegations. He also had multiple arrest warrants from the U.S. Marshals Service and Cottage Grove Police Department in Oregon.

Chauncey reportedly left the property in a blue-colored box truck. Responding deputies found the truck near Northeast Ward Road and 162nd Avenue and tried to stop it, but Chauncey fled, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

Deputies pursued the truck, eventually crossing the Interstate 205 Bridge into Portland and continuing east on Interstate 84.

Deputies ended the pursuit, which had reached speeds of 75 mph, after Chauncey drove through traffic cones into an active construction zone on I-84, according to the sheriff’s office.

Portland Police Bureau aircraft, as well as patrol units from the agency and Multnomah County, Ore., Sheriff’s Office, assisted and deflated the truck’s tires. It eventually crashed near 82nd and Columbia in Portland, the news release states.

Chauncey ran from the truck, the sheriff’s office said, and was captured a short distance away. He is facing additional allegations of attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle.