Freedom does not last long

A man wanted on a $100,000 arrest warrant was captured following a foot pursuit in Corning on Monday.

Corning police Officer Justin Jourdan was making a traffic stop on a vehicle he observed at Solano Street and Edith Avenue around 2 p.m.

The vehicle traveled onto southbound Interstate 5 at Corning Road and came to a stop on the west side of the freeway.

As the driver, Theodore Burns, stopped the vehicle the passenger, Jason Dalton, 26, a transient whose last known residence was in Corning, jumped from the car and fled on foot going down an embankment, over a fence and into Jewitt Creek behind Bartels Giant Burgers, said police Chief Tony Cardenas.

Jourdan searched the creek bed with the assistance of Officer Dave Pryatel, California Highway Patrol Officer Dustin Ferguson and two Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement task force agents.

Dalton was located hiding in tall brush and was extricated by Jourdan and Ferguson, who put him in handcuffs and placed him in a patrol vehicle.

Dalton was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital where he was medically cleared and then booked into the Tehama County Jail on suspicion of resisting or delaying a peace officer, and the warrant charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a smoking or injection device and divulge police radio transmission.

The arrest warrant was issued out of Tehama County Superior Court when Dalton failed to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 24 to face the drug possession charges.