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Wanted Felon Arrested After Long Pursuit

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ROGER DODGER	2012-08-29 11:05 AM
He wasn't loaded?! Boy he sure made the cops mad..I don't think he will be getting out for awhile meanwhile he will have the memories of that pursuit inside his mind along, long time..
D8VANILLA	2012-08-29 11:07 AM
Cool. Really glad and surprised nobody was hurt! And, thanks for posting the mug shot.
COMMENT 313856	2012-08-29 11:18 AM
Looks like he was busy making a name for himself, per the syvjournal. com police blotter: 11-29-2007 Check Forgery 610 Alamo Pintado Road, Solvang (Los Padres National Bank) A 59-year-old female from Solvang reported that a 34-year-old male from Lompoc entered the bank and presented a business check made out to Allen Rappuhn for $450. The teller cashed the check thinking it was legitimate. On Dec. 19, two employees of the SBFD station 32 reported that $450 had been missing from the station fund account. The bank refunded the stolen money to the fire station account and the case was submitted for a detective follow-up.
COMMENT 313857	2012-08-29 11:19 AM
hahahaha looks like the cops better go do some more PIT training. whatabuncharooks
COMMENT 313859	2012-08-29 11:26 AM
Ah yes, the neck tats.
COMMENT 313864	2012-08-29 11:31 AM
I thought this started in Carpinteria. Or, as KSBY reported "CarpEnteria".
COMMENT 313882	2012-08-29 11:54 AM
Looks like a real upstanding citizen.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-29 12:01 PM
Montecito it started in Montecito I started reporting it when it was headed to Carp.
COMMENT 313885	2012-08-29 12:01 PM
What brand tires Rappuhn was using?!
COMMENT 313887	2012-08-29 12:03 PM
The gas pedal stuck. Let him go!
COMMENT 313896	2012-08-29 12:27 PM
885 - The kind that go pop on a spike strip.
COMMENT 313902P	2012-08-29 12:43 PM
Looks like the cops need to revisit the PIT maneuver...
COMMENT 313917P	2012-08-29 01:04 PM
The PIT maneuver is very dangerous and doesn't work a lot of the time. It depends on the terrain and the unpredictable driving of the perp.
COMMENT 313922	2012-08-29 01:15 PM
He drove by my house on Victoria. He wasn't a very high speed. They kept saying he was doing 40 MPH. I know that's less than a lot of the residents of this area do down this street on a daily basis.
COMMENT 313931	2012-08-29 01:48 PM
Thanks for putting everyone’s lives @ risk...jerk.
COMMENT 313937	2012-08-29 02:07 PM
Love the armchair law enforcement experts in the crowd. Obviously what's wrong with our country is no one is asking these geniuses among us to train the pros on how it's really supposed to be done.
PURPLERIDER	2012-08-29 02:18 PM
937, your funny! The world does need more comedians. Thx.
YIN YANG	2012-08-29 02:43 PM
Yeah, just like Roger's reporting, I'd like to see you try it! And do it successfully. Everything takes practice, and something like a PIT maneuver will take luck, timing, good conditions. Don't criticize those out in the field and on the front lines until you've done it yourself. and a shout out to the dispatchers!
COMMENT 314015	2012-08-29 04:10 PM
PIT also doesn't work on manual transmission cars.
COMMENT 314020	2012-08-29 04:15 PM
I'm 5 DAYS older than this guy but he looks easily a decade older... In other news, Toyota trucks can take a licking and keep on ticking! 3 tires down and two PIT maneuvers failed? Sweet!
COMMENT 314024	2012-08-29 04:18 PM
314015 - do you seriously believe that? What does the transmission of the car being PITed have anything to do with basic physics? You are wrong.
REXOFSB	2012-08-29 04:19 PM
@015: Why wouldn't the PIT work on stick-shift cars?
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-29 04:20 PM
I bet I coulda pited it in my old Coupe De Ville. I took out a Ford Ranger stick with it, and a 76 BMW 20 years ago..I wish I had that beautiful car now!
COMMENT 314031	2012-08-29 04:33 PM
I'd like to know what the felony warrant was for. Cops really should have a better reason than driving without headlights to instigate a high speed chase across half the County. If some citizen had been killed or seriously injured would it have been worth it? Doesn't sound like it to me.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-29 05:01 PM
Someone googled him writing bad paper it's in anutter comment above.
COMMENT 314062	2012-08-29 05:34 PM
@013, Yeah- we should just let anyone who evades the Police go... Who cares about enforcing laws. HE is the person who should be locked up for ATTEMPTED MURDER by driving a 4000lbs truck endangering the other drivers. When did right become wrong and wrong behavior right? This driver should have been taken out as he will just be revolving in and out of prison.
COMMENT 314065P	2012-08-29 05:41 PM
His decision not to stop for the police last night, was just another bad decision in a string of bad decisions he has been making his whole life.
COMMENT 314077	2012-08-29 05:55 PM
020 I too was surprised how worn and old this guy looks for his age. That haggard drained look that all drug addicts have, especially the meth users.
COMMENT 314097	2012-08-29 06:40 PM
he totally looks like he's over 50! He should have stayed at Casa Dorinda, rather than going out joy riding in his grandson's car!
COMMENT 313896	2012-08-29 06:58 PM
I think 015 is reffering to the fact that automatic transmission vehicles will stall if they spin backwards suddenly. With a manual you could theoretically shift into neutral, and possibly spin all the way around and keep driving. However most drivers would lose control of the vehicle once they are backwards reguardless of what type of transmission they have.
SCEPTIC	2012-08-29 08:11 PM
I'm confused - a cop like Beutel can intentionally misuse an instrument like a breathalyser to arrest an innocent person, forge their name, write perjury in a police report that could end up costing them maybe 50K in legal fees, fines, insurance, etc, no problem. This guy forged a $450 check once, definitely a crime.
COMMENT 314143P	2012-08-29 08:17 PM
062: Check stats - it's cops on high-speed chases who kill people. This wasn't necessary - this guy wasn't a dangerous violent criminal who needed to be apprehended NOW for public safety - this is a macho Rambo incident, probably a great relief from boring traffic patrol.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-29 09:09 PM
Also inportant to note that no one was hurt or killed in this action. It was neccessary to continue the chase because SBSO thought the guy was carrying his sawed off shotgun which he is known to do. He was acting so unpredictable that by stopping the chase the public would have been more in danger. Plain and Simple the cops in this case did an outstanding job..
FLICKA	2012-08-30 08:01 AM
Not just drugs that make a person look old; alcoholics can add 10-20 years to their looks. I've seen it, they clean up and look so much younger. I'd imagine the $450. check was just his latest; carrying a sawed off shotgun fits in there somewhere, he owns it for a reason.
PITLOCAL	2012-08-30 11:17 AM
Loser.
COMMENT 314918	2012-09-01 10:51 AM
Question for those who might know about these things: what sentence will this lowlife with the neck tats get. Whatever it is, it won't be long enough.
COMMENT 397281	2013-04-13 11:42 AM
No surprise that this guy tried to make it to "meth" heaven, the Chumash Casino for one more trip before returning to jail. I don't think I read anything in the recent Armenta Editorial in the NP about all the crime and drugs at the casino just his take on what a great asset the gambling casino is to the community, syphoning millions in gambling losses out of the community but providing a few low paying unprotected "jobs". Nothing in that piece either about the millions they don't pay in taxes that are needed to pay for all of the public services, roads and other infrastructure used by the tribe and it's gambling complex.

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