PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man allegedly involved in a car chase with police that ended with him being bitten by Port Angeles police dog Bogey has pleaded not guilty.
Christopher Michael White, 23, pleaded not guilty last Friday to one count of attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle after he allegedly led a Lower Elwha Klallam tribal police officer on a June 10 chase that reached speeds of up to 100 mph.
White is set to appear next in Clallam County Superior Court on July 12, with a tentative jury trial date set for Aug. 12.
Remains in jail
White remains in the Clallam County jail on $25,000 bond, according to Superior Court documents.
According to police accounts, the pursuit ended with White being found in the woods near the 200 block of Bishop Road, south of state Highway 112, after White reportedly abandoned a Chrysler New Yorker he was driving.
Port Angeles Officer Lucas DeGand and canine partner Bogey helped Elwha police, Clallam County sheriff’s deputies and Border Patrol agents track White at about 10:15 p.m. and found him hiding in a stand of bushes.
Police said Bogey was allowed to approach and bite White after police said White refused to come out of the bushes with his hands visible, despite multiple orders to do so.
White was treated at Olympic Medical Center for wounds to his right arm before he was booked into the jail.
White’s arrest is the fifth that DeGand and partner Bogey have assisted in since the pair finished their training in March.
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