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Show Officers Capture Suspects After Stolen Vehicle Chase The chase was on, when a man from Texas tried to buy something with his credit card. The clerk called to verify the card and the boy ran out of the Big Kock Candy Mountain, jumped into his truck and headed south But not before the alert clerk copied the license plate number She called the Highway Patrol dispatcher in Rich-IMd, reported the incident, gave him the Texas license number, which he ran on National Crime Information Center and it came back as a stolen vehicle. Highway patrolmen from Panguitch and Circleville were called to assist in the chase and two officers from the Richfield area headed south. About the same time, John Neimann, Garfield County sheriff deputy reported that another person wanted for a federal offense had just left Panguitch. (Mho Bulkley and Neimann set up a roadblock 10 miles south of Panguitch, Lt. Val Palmer and Al Higgs, radio vpairmen for the Highway Patrol were returning from Panguitch and passed the stolen truck They turned to follow The fellow driving the stolen truck was Dicked uo at the roadblcok set uo by Bulkley and Neimann and the fellow running from Panguitch was picked up by Palmer and Higgs within a couple of miles of each other. Harold Steven Bushman, 19. San Jose, Calif, was picked up and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and will be tried in Garfield Countv courts The 1977 pickup from Amarillo, Texas will be returned to the owner after trial Eldon Hardmann. 19, Salt Lake City was picked up charged with criminal mischief and released on bond Hard-man was an employ of CGG Geophysical Survey working in the Panguitch area at the time Other actions of the Garfield County Sheriff's department was the arrest and charge of two men with misdemeanor theft for taking property from a Western Auto Store in Panguitch Gilbert Martinez, 19 and Noe Lujan, 32, are employees of the CGG Geophysical Survey also. |