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Cops: High speed pursuit began after suspect struck deputy with car

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Joshua Keplinger, 23, of Bermuda Dunes, led police on a high speed pursuit through Indio, La Quinta, and Palm Desert
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Tuesday’s crazy high speed pursuit through Indio, La Quinta, and Palm Desert began when a suspect hit a deputy with his car when the officer tried to talk to him about a vehicle that was shot.

Police were investigating reports of a possible shooting near Avenue 42 and Jefferson Street around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, reports the Desert Sun. When officers approached a possible suspect inside a car on Dr. Carreon Boulevard in Indio, the man hit a deputy with his car and then drove away.

The suspect, 23-year-old Joshua Keplinger, then led officers on a high speed pursuit at speeds of over 85 miles per hour on Coachella Valley roads, according to KESQ. At one point, a Sheriff’s cruiser rolled over during the pursuit and another deputy crashed his car into a bystander’s vehicle.

The deputies and bystander were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Keplinger was arrested eventually arrested in an Applebee’s parking lot on Cook Street in Palm Desert on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and felony evading causing serious injury.

Here is video of the arrest:

https://www.facebook.com/KMIRTV/videos/1064938990237602/

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