A 27-year-old man is in custody after trying to elude Clallam County Sheriff’s Office deputies who were attempting to arrest him for a felony warrant.
At about 2 p.m. on Dec. 12, deputies received a tip that Anthony Forshaw, who had a felony warrant for his arrest, was seen at a location east of the Safeway store at 2709 East U.S. Highway 101 in Port Angeles. When deputies arrived on scene, they saw a man matching Forshaw’s description coming from the area of an abandoned house just east of the Safeway Plaza. When deputies asked the man to stop, he ran into the Safeway store and further attempted to evade deputies by hiding in the storage area at the rear of the store. When the deputies located the subject, he took off running once more, pushing bread carts and other items at deputies in attempt to slow their pursuit.
Deputies located the man in the back of the store and one of the deputies used a Taser to incapacitate him.
The subject ran back in to the public area of the store. One of the deputies deployed a Taser on him.
Deputies discovered thrown an improperly labeled pill bottle that contained an oxycodone pill, according to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
The subject was later identified as Forshaw, who was booked on the preexisting felony warrant and for new charges of obstructing a law enforcement officer, unlawful possession of a legend drug and bail jumping.