In brief: Inmate goes missing after appointment

A woman who escaped police in 2008 by leaping from a bridge into the Wenatchee River escaped custody again this week while she was supposed to be at a doctor’s appointment on Spokane’s South Hill.

U.S. marshals are offering a reward for tips that help them arrest Sandra Irene Duffy, 47, who went missing Tuesday at about 4:25 p.m.

Duffy was charged in July with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. She was furloughed from jail to allow her to go the appointment; a magistrate judge issued an arrest warrant Thursday because she failed to return.

Duffy was last seen wearing a light blue and dark blue jacket, a yellow or white hooded sweatshirt, torn blue jeans and white shoes, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. She is 5-foot-8 and about 150 pounds.

Anyone with information is asked to call the U.S. Marshals Service at (509) 368-3600.

Duffy was missing for two days in July 2008 after she leaped about 20 feet from a bridge into the river to avoid Wenatchee police. Police arrested her at her home about 23 miles from the bridge two days later on methamphetamine charges. She was sentenced to two years in federal prison and a year of probation.

Duffy was one of more than 20 people indicted by a grand jury last summer in a federal investigation into widespread cocaine and meth distribution in Eastern Washington.

Pursuit ends in arrest after shots heard

Reports of gunfire near Corbin Park early Thursday led to a police chase that ended with the suspect’s car on its roof.

Salvador Lazalde, 29, was arrested for attempting to elude police and a warrant for car theft after he crawled out of his overturned four-door compact car near West Garland Avenue and North Oak Street.

Sgt. Dave Overhoff was responding to at least nine reports of multiple gunshots in the area of the park at about 2:20 a.m. when he saw a car matching the description of a vehicle a witness reported seeing speeding away from the area just after the gunshots.

The car fled, and Overhoff stopped the vehicle with a “pursuit intervention technique,” which involves nudging the fleeing vehicle’s back bumper with a patrol car to force it into a spin.

Lazalde’s car hit a curb before it flipped over, police said. He was taken to Deaconess Medical Center as a precaution before being booked into jail, police said.

The shooting remains under investigation, as does the status of the vehicle Lazalde was driving.