Jimenez

STATEMENT OF FACTS

A. The Corpus Delicti.

On the night of May 19-20, 2016, around midnight, Sheriff’s Deputy Jeffrey

Casey was on patrol in Highland when he noticed a white Chevy Suburban, with an

attached trailer, parked next to an open field. He then saw three males and two trash cans

in the field. The males ran to the Suburban, got in, and drove away.

Deputy Casey suspected that they had committed illegal dumping. He followed

the truck and started to make a traffic stop by turning on his flashing overhead lights.

The Suburban “sped away.” After going a few blocks, however, it made a U-turn

and went back to where the trash cans were. The driver leaned out the window, lifted the

lid of one of the trash cans, and used a lighter to set fire to the contents. To stop him

3 from destroying evidence, Deputy Casey rammed the back of the Suburban. The driver

dropped the lid, which extinguished the fire.

The Suburban drove off again. Deputy Casey followed, with his lights flashing

and his siren on. At Elmwood Road, the Suburban stopped and dropped off the two

passengers. Officers at the scene chased them and arrested them. They were identified

as defendant’s sons, E.J.…