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Show Driver Captured In Stolen Vehicle Chase Panguitch area law enforcement officers apprehended a stolen vehicle and arrested its driver in the early morning hours last Saturday. Truck driver Bill Kay, listening to his scanner at home, glanced out the window of his residence on U.S. Highway 89 north of Panguitch just as the Richfield dispatcher reported a 66 International pickup truck stolen from the Gunnison area earlier alledgedly headed south on US 89. ' Kay did a double take as he spotted what he thought was the stolen vehicle and quickly called Sheriff Vic Mid-dleton, who, resting in bed at his home had heard the same report. The Richfield dispatcher telephoned Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Craig Twitchell, attending an EMT training class at Panguitch, and notified him of the stolen vehicle. The two officers spotted the stolen vehicle just south of Panguitch and gave chase at speed in excess of 90 miles an hour. Driving close enough to the suspected vehicle to check the licence plates, they confirmed with the dispatcher and pulled the vehicle over, arresting the driver, who was identified as Grant Alvin Ramsay, 22, Kanab. Middleton and Twitchell charged the suspect with possession of a stolen vehicle and booked him at the county jail in Panguitch. They notified both the Sanpete and Juab county sheriffs. Ramsay was also a suspect in an early morning theft of another vehicle stolen in Orem that wrecked and burned. The driver of the burned vehicle caught a ride with a truck driver to Nephi where he ap parently stole a loaded tanker truck and headed for Gunnison. Later the driver abandoned the tanker and is a suspect in the theft of the pickup truck stopped by officers Middleton and Twitchell. |