Dashaud D. Cummings, 17, consults with temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke in Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The 17-year-old boy arrested for allegedly stealing a police car as he tried to get away from troopers chasing him for speeding in Chehalis has been charged as an adult in Lewis County Superior Court.
Dashaud D. Cummings was arrested on August 10, captured by a police dog in the woods off Interstate 5 a couple of miles from where Chehalis Police Department Chief Glenn Schaffer’s car was taken at Riverside Golf Course.
Cummings was brought before a judge this afternoon, who asked if this was the case where the individual was up on a roof while law enforcement officers were searching for him, and then took the police car.
A decline hearing was held in juvenile court, allowing the case to be moved in adult court, according to Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Joel DeFazio.
The Lacey resident is charged with second-degree assault, attempting to elude and theft of a motor vehicle as well as hit and run.
Charging documents indicate he told a police officer he was running because he didn’t want to get arrested for a warrant. He told the officer he got into one of the patrol cars, was tased, and fled, later running on foot, according to the documents.
A Chehalis Police Department spokesperson previously related that as officers approached the police car, the suspect put it in reverse, striking a trooper with the open door, knocking the trooper down.
When Officer Matt McKnight informed him he had injured a trooper, Cummings responded, “I told him to move,” the documents state.
The 15-year-old girl who with him told police she told him to stop and that he didn’t have a license.
Defazio asked that the defendant be held on $100,000 bail.
Temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge Cummings has a stable address with his aunt, his legal guardian who is a nurse and asked for lower bail.
Judge Richard Brosey set bail at $35,000.
Centralia attorney David Brown represented Cummings in juvenile court and was appointed to continue representing him. The arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 8.
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For background, read “Theft of police chief’s car could mean adult court for teen” from Thursday August 11, 2016, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker
Yep Mcnight just put that guy with the knife in the grave s few years ago. No dash camera or body camera. How convienent the honest witness video camera wasn’t there. I guess the State Patrol thought he was Super Man and could stop cars with just one punch. Steroids make cops buff and dumb. No drug tests for cops how convienent. Charging the kid as an adult is probably just another LC conviction overthrown in the near future.
Headline should read Law enforcement outsmarted by child gets his wheels stolen. Funny that officer McKnight didn’t start popping off rounds when the child hit the trooper in reverse with the door. Not to mention the child’s skin color. We almost had a black Lives matter in Lewis county! Lol
Here I go” Peabody actually this is quote from the article above:
“Cummings was brought before a judge this afternoon, who asked if this was the case where the individual was up on a roof while law enforcement officers were searching for him, and then took the police car”.
There it is right in the article-roof. I only mentioned fluoride because you always do.
Nice sparring with you Peabody ha ha.
Read the article it does not say anything about a roof top. Bobbyinlc. I also read you’re comment about the other jurisdictions shooting people on video. LC cops do not have any recording devices in their cars nor on their body’s. The troopers an idiot for trying to stop a moving vehicle. Maybe the steroids their never tested for went to his head. Funny you bring up fluoride. Europe has banned its use. I wonder why.
Story on 8/11 https://lewiscountysirens.com/?p=37837
Peabody I usually do not get drawn into your posts but can’t help this one. There was a chase that ended at the golf course parking lot and resulted in a foot pursuit. When officers leave their cars to chase a suspect on foot they generally do not take the time to shut everything off, lock the door, put the keys in their pocket and start the chase.
This kid eluded them and watched the chase from a rooftop and saw his chance to steal the police car. He hit the Trooper with the driver’s side door he held open as drove at the Trooper.
There is no conspiracy, “what were they doing at the golf course” read the facts first.
Of course this is a result of fluoride in the water I am sure.
Funny the car was stolen from a golf course. I’m wondering what are the real details here. Were the keys left in the vehicle and what was the chief doing at the golf course? I’m willing to bet that this tax feeding police officer was playing golf at the time of the vehicle theft. Prove me wrong.