{"id":1017514,"date":"2026-08-22T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:11:13","slug":"phoenix-resident-arrested-after-police-pursuit-near-clear-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017514\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix resident arrested after police pursuit near Clear Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEAR LAKE, Iowa. (KTTC) \u2013 Clear Lake Police say a Phoenix resident was arrested after allegedly stealing a car and leading authorities on a chase Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities say around 2 p.m. that afternoon, police responded to I-35 for a report of a stolen car traveling south from the Minnesota border. Officers would eventually find the car in the city of Clear Lake and attempted to stop it; however, the driver reportedly fled from authorities, continuing to speed south on the interstate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver then reportedly took exit 188 from I-35, before colliding with another vehicle that was towing a boat. Police say the driver then took off on foot into a nearby cornfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities would search the area for hours before finding the driver, Evelio Angulo Gomez, 51, of Phoenix, Arizona, around 6:27 p.m. Gomez was reportedly found in a creek not far from the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gomez was subsequently taken into custody, and faces the following charges:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list | article-list\">\n<li>Possession of Stolen Property<\/li>\n<li>Eluding<\/li>\n<li>Interference with Official Acts<\/li>\n<li>No Valid Driver\u2019s License<\/li>\n<li>Failure to Maintain Control<\/li>\n<li>Speeding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lastly, authorities added that no one was hurt as a result of the pursuit, or the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEAR LAKE, Iowa. (KTTC) \u2013 Clear Lake Police say a Phoenix resident was arrested after allegedly stealing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1017515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,7278,8170,1587,7728,193216,4219,9856,7776,1589,7207,14155,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1017514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arrested","tag-authorities","tag-az","tag-chase","tag-clear-lake","tag-crime","tag-first-responders","tag-iowa","tag-phoenix","tag-police","tag-pursuit","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117140514074650448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}