Officers were able to arrest a suspect who was found driving a stolen vehicle with drugs inside after driving erratically without headlights. Damien Martinez was arrested after allegedly swerving and passing in no-passing zones on Thursday night in the area of U.S. 36 heading toward Estes Park.
Dispatch received multiple reports of the GMC Yukon driving erratically without its headlights on just after 6 p.m. Thursday. An Estes Park Police officer and a Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy spotted the vehicle just outside of town and tried to stop the vehicle.
The officers said Martinez, 21, refused to pull over and that’s when officers started a pursuit. They continued following the vehicle into Rocky Mountain National Park where rangers assisted in the pursuit. Deputies were able to conduct a precision immobilization technique or PIT maneuver and Martinez was taken into custody.