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Just after 10 p.m. Sunday, April 19, a witness reported seeing a man bent down near a police vehicle in the Lynnwood Police Department parking lot. The witness told 911 dispatchers the man appeared to light a fire underneath the truck and then get into a black BMW sedan.

When officers attempted to contact the man – and Edmonds resident – he drove off. One of the responding sergeants pursued; the suspect was driving erratically and attempting to swerve into the sergeant's vehicle.

The sergeant successfully performed a pursuit intervention technique on the 196th Street SW overpass, for...