Samir Judeh manhunt: Northwest's fastest criminal...or slowest cops?
Samir J. Judeh. Name sound familiar?
Probably not (unless you're one of the folks who subscribed to our new link feed...), but this guy seems to have a knack for evading police during high speed pursuit.
Yesterday morning, Judeh apparently managed to escape from a motel room while officers were outside "plotting their next move," then lost them driving southbound in the northbound lanes of I-5, before car-jacking a woman and making her drive him to the U-District.
Why were the police looking for him in the first place? Well, turns out it stemmed from an earlier driving infraction: he had avoided officers in not one, but two high-speed chases earlier this month. The best part - besides this man being the most hilariously elusive criminal in recent memory - is why he is running in the first place. He apparently has no outstanding arrest warrants to begin with, and the only reason he ran from the cops earlier this month was because they tried to stop him for "minor traffic offenses." Good call, buddy.
Even the cops seem perplexed by his actions:
"He has no reason to cause all these problems for himself," [Mountlake Terrace police sgt. Doug Hansen] said.
We don't know why, but somehow one minor traffic offense has quickly turned into felony elusions, carjacking, and a whole lot of countywide notoriety.
Can you imagine this guy's conversation with his cell mate when he ultimate gets caught (which is all but guaranteed with a case as high profile as this)? We'd guess it would go something like this:
Judeh: "What you in for?"
Cellmate: "Murder, what about you?"
Judeh: "Failure to yield."
Cellmate: "Word."
Congratulations, Samir...you've just entered the inexplicable criminality hall of fame.
