(8-a.m. News) – Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports a traffic stop at around 3:45-p.m. Wednesday at 14th and Garfield Streets, resulted in a pursuit and an arrest. Officers tried to stop a 1997 Chevy K1500 pickup, after observing of the vehicle fail to obey a stop sign. When the pickup also failed to stop for officers, the chase was on. The driver of the vehicle – identified as 44-year-old Anthony Wayne See, of Shambbaugh – stopped at 20^th & Garfield, after traveling through residential areas at speeds more than 70 miles per hour.

Officers arrested See for driving a vehicle while barred, possession of methamphetamine, felony eluding of a police vehicle, failure to obey a stop sign, speeding and littering. He was being held in the Page County Jail on $12,000 bail, pending a court appearance. Clarinda Police were assisted during the pursuit and arrest, by a Fremont County Deputy Sheriff.

All reports will be forwarded to the office of Page County Attorney Carl Sonksen for review and the filing of formal charges in Page County District Court.