PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles police apprehended a woman wanted on a $5,000 warrant after a foot chase through several alleys and yards Wednesday morning.
Port Angeles transient Amy Jo Zimmerman, 25, was taken into custody and booked into the Clallam County jail for investigation of resisting arrest and for the warrant after a chance encounter with Officer Andrew Neisinger led to an extended search and foot chase.
She remained in jail Wednesday afternoon on a $5,500 bail.
Neisinger said he and two other officers were investigating an unrelated trespassing report in an alley near the intersection of East Second and South Washington street when he recognized Zimmerman, who stepped into a house nearby, he said.
A records check showed a $5,000 Superior Court warrant for her arrest, and, with the cooperation of the homeowner, the officers attempted to apprehend her in the house, he said.
She fled through the backyard into the alley and ran eastbound toward Chambers, he said. Neisinger spotted her near the Liberty Street Apartments and pursued Zimmerman across four fences and through backyards before losing sight of her.
Officer Trevor Dropp found her in an alley near Caroline and Liberty streets. A Clallam County sheriff’s deputy assisted.
