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On Monday afternoon, Mammoth Lakes Police Officer Doug Hornbeck,on routine patrol, stopped to contact a white male adult who was panhandling near the Laurel Mountain Blvd entrance to the Gateway Mall

(Editor’s aside: Gateway to what? We believe they’re referring to the dilapidated teardown which houses KMMT and Green Mammoth).  

Beginning with a consensual encounter, the Officer Hornbeck conducted a ‘Field Interview’ or ‘F.I.’ in an effort to identify and learn more about the subject.

The subject gave Officer Hornbeck different names and began acting suspiciously.

Officer Hornbeck observed a knife on the subject’s belt and began to frisk the subject to secure that knife and to check for other weapons to protect both himself and the public.

The subject pulled away and ran, with Officer Hornbeck giving chase. Hornbeck immediately let other officers know he was in foot pursuit. MLPD Officers as well as MCSO Undersheriff Moriarty chased the subject for approximately 15 minutes, through the Shady Rest Tract forest, to Manzanita, around several apartment and condo buildings near Sierra Nevada and Chaparral, through backyards north of Sierra Nevada Rd eventually taking him into custody behind the Arrowhead Apartments at the Corner of Arrowhead and Sierra Nevada.

Several citizens along the way pointed officers in the direction he had fled, which greatly assisted officers staying on the trail of the subject.

The suspect, eventually identified as Cody Alan Terrell, 22, of Irving, Texas also got to meet the new police chief, Al Davis, as it was Chief Davis who ultimately caught and handcuffed him.

Terrell was charged with 148(a) PC/Resisting, delaying or obstructing police officers and 148.9 PC/Giving false information to police officers.

Terrell offered no explanation as to why he ran from Officer Hornbeck.

    -Press Release