A convicted car thief was caught in a stolen Toyota Tacoma pickup truck and was arrested early Saturday morning, authorities say.
Koby W. Blake, 20, was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center without bail on felony charges of vehicle theft in the first degree, assault in the third degree and failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer in the first degree, according to a Juneau Police Department press release. He was also charged with misdemeanor counts of failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer in the second degree and driving while license revoked, the release stated.
JPD responded to a report from a resident on Amalga Street that their vehicles had been entered and rifled through around 2 a.m. Saturday. Responding officers discovered several other vehicles in the surrounding area appeared to have been entered. During the investigation, an officer on foot attempted to conduct a traffic stop of a suspicious vehicle, a pickup truck that was leaving the area.
“Police watched it drive out of the driveway,” JPD Officer Chris Gifford said by phone Saturday.
The truck then drove toward and passed the officer on foot, placing the officer in fear of being struck by the vehicle, the statement read.
“He drove at them and drove away,” Gifford said simply.
Another officer in a patrol car then attempted to stop the truck on a nearby street, and Blake exited the vehicle and ran from the officer. After a brief foot chase, Blake was arrested then taken to LCCC.
Gifford said that officers contacted the owner of the vehicle, and the owner of the truck confirmed it had been stolen.
Empire archives indicate Blake was arrested in March of last year on felony charges after police determined a Dodge Durango he drove into a yard on Kiowa Drive was stolen. He was charged with vehicle theft in the first degree, a felony, and driving with a revoked license. Electronic court records indicate Blake pleaded guilty to vehicle theft in the first degree and was sentenced to 545 days in jail with 180 days suspended, placed on supervised probation for 1,460 days and had his license suspended.
• Contact reporter Emily Russo Miller at 523-2263 or at emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Comments (29)
Add commentLock em up, Danno
Lock em up, Danno
This POS
has a record as long as my arm. I hope he's held fully accountable this time, i.e., long jail term. Good work JPD.
Check 'em out...
...I would like to get some of my stolen stuff back...
car theft
You have to wonder about the intelligence of someone who steals a car in a landlocked city like ours.
Where ya gonna drive it?
Jo - now we're on the same
Jo - now we're on the same page! I just said that to my family, out loud, right before I saw your comment!!
re: Look him up
http://www.courtrecords.alaska.gov/pa/pa.urd/PAMW6500
haha...
I like that we now have a comedy section in the paper.
I also second Jo MacNamara's comments... don't always agree but the post was spot on!
Lucky to be alive
The way this guy tried to run down a JPD officer with a vehicle, he's lucky to be alive. The officer had every right to draw and fire, perhaps he should have. I think car theft is terrible. Someone worked hard at an honest job to buy transportation to get themselves to that honest job. Steal a horse in the old days it was a hanging at sunrise.
correction
AKjustice I think you mean FAS . . . fetal alcohol syndrome for those who don't know.
@Banditrider: to be fair,
@Banditrider: to be fair, looking at a white woman if you were black also meant a hanging at sunrise in the old days. Maybe the old days aren't a very good model for exacting justice?
Not everything in this world
Not everything in this world is fair Persnickety, do you ever add anything to a story with your comments ? or are you just a troll thug looking down your nose on everyone who you disagree with?
I agree with Banditrider, that cop could have shot this idiot and from what I know of him, he sure would saved us tax payers a lot of money in the future with incarceration costs.
If I'm a troll thug
If I'm a troll thug (brandishing my scary words!), what does that make people who advocate gunning down car thieves?
I won't go so far as to say
I won't go so far as to say that I agree that gunning him down would have been the right thing to do. Nonetheless, AlaskanStyle is correct in stating that doing so would save the state a lot of money down the road. This individual is going to end up costing society a fortune in the damages he does and the costs of incarceration through the years.
He's a sad story.
@Ich Rauche: you'd be correct
@Ich Rauche: you'd be correct in stating that it would save society a lot of money to shoot most people, many of them not even criminals. In fact, if you were to shoot 6 billion people, the 1 billion left over would find themselves living in a world absent nearly all of our current problems.
But there's a good reason we don't go around shooting people to save money: lives are more important than money.
Pp, Are you really baked? I
Pp,
Are you really baked? I haven't posted anything in a couple of days.
Reamus_Maximus
He's in lemon creek correctionial facility most likely getting reamus maximumized. Go hang out with him.
AlaskanStyle, That's just
AlaskanStyle,
That's just disgusting. How can anybody think in such a fashion? You should be ashamed of yourself!!!!! I hope you'll do some serious soul searching.
Of course I don't really feel this way. I just wanted to get my two bits in before the bliss ninnies jumped all over you.
That was a good one!!!
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Soul
" I dont need no preaching, and I aint got no soul to save!"
AKjustice,Nails this story
AKjustice nails this story dead on. The bliss ninnies out there can whine all they want. However, I will feel safer at night knowing this individual is locked away. You can blubber all you want about how this person didn't get a fair chance and all that other malarky. However, when you find yourself looking down the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun and this little punk is on the other end your liberal bleeding hearts will jump into your throats. The best thing society can do for itself and this person is to lock him up for a long time.
ich rache
That gave me a chuckle ich. Cheers!
He was probably just some
He was probably just some tweaker looking for cash.
Which is definitely good cause to lock him up for a good long time. But shooting him is extreme. Oh no, a cop almost had to jump out of the way! It's his job. If there was any chance the cop would've died, he would've shot. He clearly didn't, so it clearly wasn't as intense of a situation as some of you guys are making it out to be.
Pull on your big kid panties, like these cops do before they go to work every day.
And be very grateful they weren't wasting their time with pot busts for once.
Solution?
Re: Grim
Maybe *they* can shovel off the sidewalks for downtown. LOL.
Sorry Schmile, but there is
Sorry Schmile, but there is case after case that have agreed that trying to hit a cop with a vehicle is assualt with a deadly weapon and many many officers have shot perps for doing just that.