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It was 2 a.m. and with Clackamas County sheriff's deputies hot in pursuit, Casey Victor Fowler saw a building ahead that might make a good hiding place.
What he didn't know was that building was the sheriff's office.
The 18-year-old Southeast Portland man, who deputies say minutes earlier had been driving a stolen motorcycle, tried to open the back door. But it was locked. So he ran around the building and crouched under a bush next to Undersheriff Charley Bowen's office.
That's where deputies, who are familiar with the terrain, nabbed him Thursday morning.
"It was dark, and he didn't realize where he was," said Detective Jim Strovink, a sheriff's spokesman. "He was confused."
The foot chase started after a sheriff's sergeant attempted to stop Fowler for driving a motorcycle without its lights on.
Instead of making a break for nearby Interstate 205, where Fowler and the $30,000 racing motorcycle may have eluded them, deputies say, Fowler turned into the parking lot of Gallery Furniture at 12670 Southeast 82nd Avenue and ran.
He lost both shoes, found his path blocked briefly by a chain-link fence and fell in a creek. But he kept sprinting toward the building ahead: the North Station of the sheriff's office.
Fowler was in Clackamas County Jail on charges of burglary, and police continue to investigate the case. Fowler could not be reached for comment
What he didn't know was that building was the sheriff's office.
The 18-year-old Southeast Portland man, who deputies say minutes earlier had been driving a stolen motorcycle, tried to open the back door. But it was locked. So he ran around the building and crouched under a bush next to Undersheriff Charley Bowen's office.
That's where deputies, who are familiar with the terrain, nabbed him Thursday morning.
"It was dark, and he didn't realize where he was," said Detective Jim Strovink, a sheriff's spokesman. "He was confused."
The foot chase started after a sheriff's sergeant attempted to stop Fowler for driving a motorcycle without its lights on.
Instead of making a break for nearby Interstate 205, where Fowler and the $30,000 racing motorcycle may have eluded them, deputies say, Fowler turned into the parking lot of Gallery Furniture at 12670 Southeast 82nd Avenue and ran.
He lost both shoes, found his path blocked briefly by a chain-link fence and fell in a creek. But he kept sprinting toward the building ahead: the North Station of the sheriff's office.
Fowler was in Clackamas County Jail on charges of burglary, and police continue to investigate the case. Fowler could not be reached for comment
