DAYTON – An attempted traffic stop at the intersection of West Main Street and Wagon Road in Dayton at 2 a.m. last Wednesday, April 1, led to a high-speed car chase westbound on Highway 12 through Waitsburg and Dixie, in Walla Walla County, before the driver and two passengers were apprehended.

Columbia County Deputy Jason DeVoir planned to pull the driver over on the western outskirts of Dayton to speak to him about his yellow headlights, which are illegal per state law. Instead the driver, 19-year-old Pasco man Giovanny Blanco, sped away westbound first on Wagon Road and then continuing...