Crews
United States v. Crews
Opinion
Opinion
FACTS
At about 2:00 a.m. on July 2, 2005, a police officer attempted to pull Crews over for failing to properly signal a 12050 UNITED STATES v. CREWS turn while driving. Rather than comply, Crews, a convicted felon, increased his speed and then jumped from the vehicle in an attempt to elude the police. After a brief chase on foot, officers arrested Crews for attempting to elude the police pur- suant to Section 811.540 of the Oregon Revised Statutes and for other state and city violations. After the officers advised Crews of his Miranda rights, Crews verbally waived them and admitted that he fled because of an outstanding arrest warrant in the state of Washington, a warrant that, unbeknownst to Crews, was non-extraditable. The officers impounded the car Crews had been driving, a 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass regis- tered to Manus, also a convicted felon, and registered to Manus’s address at Apartment 3, 6731 SE 82nd Avenue, Port- land, Oregon. Crews’ arrest had taken place only a few blocks from that location. Neither the Portland Police Data System nor Crews’s invalid drivers license listed the address of Manus’s apartment as Crews’s residence.