Overview
- Deputies identified 24-year-old Alexis Ortega after a Saturday stop on the 3900 block of Las Casistas Drive, where the driver initially complied before fleeing.
- Ortega was taken into custody without incident during a follow-up at his home on the 3700 block of NativeDancer Street and booked on a $12,340 bond.
- Deputies arrested 18-year-old Raul Alberto Sias after attempting to stop a red Ford Mustang on I-10 that eventually pulled over on the 9700 block of Alameda Avenue.
- Sias was charged with evading arrest or detention with a motor vehicle and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $20,000 bond.
- Sheriff Oscar Ugarte said fleeing drivers put lives at risk and stated the agency will find offenders and hold them accountable.