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- Truck driver arrested after crash
- YAKIMA (Wednesday, 8-26-98)--A 61-year old Yakima man was arrested after his flatbed truck--loaded with car batteries--crashed as he was fleeing from deputies.
- Deputy Michael Hoffee said the driver suffered minor injuries when his 1973 Ford truck went out of control on Gun Club road near South 41st Street around 2:50 p.m. Tuesday.
- Hoffee said the unnamed man had been stopped by a commercial vehicle enforcement officer, but "drove away during the contact". Deputies gave chase and arrested the man when his truck crashed, spilling batteries and acid all over the roadway.
- A Dept. of Ecology team was called to the scene to clean up the acid spill.
- Deputies are investigating whether the man was drunk during the episode. The driver refused medical treatment at the scene and was booked into Yakima County Jail, deputies reported. Charges against the man weren't immediately released.
- Blanca Garcia back home
- MABTON (Thursday, 8-6-98)--Fifteen-year old Blanca Selene Garcia has been located and returned home Yakima County Sheriff's deputies said today.
- She reportedly phoned the Yakima PD this morning and asked them to come and get her. She was taken to the YSO for an interview and released to her parents, deputies said today.
- Blanca reportedly is in good condition after having been reported kidnapped from her Mabton home July 25. Suspected in the incident was Ricardo Miranda, 19, who has not been taken into custody.
- Circumstances of Blanca's departure from her home are now in question. But because of the age difference between Blanca and Miranda, deputies will turn their investigation over to Yakima County Prosecutor Jeff Sullivan for possible criminal charges.
- The YSO and Garcia family has thanked media outlets for their help, and will release further information as it becomes available, according to Lt. Ken Irwin.