A man has been arrested following a bizarre chase, and standoff involving a military style tractor trailer on the Central Coast.
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies received a report of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot off of Los Osos Valley Road in Los Osos at about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday. When deputies arrived, a man drove away in the big rig tractor, crashing through a gate at Montana de Oro State Park. He stopped in a parking lot at Sandspit Beach.
Deputies, State Park Rangers, and other law enforcement officers set up a perimeter around the truck. But, the driver refused to surrender. After a more than four hour standoff, a SWAT team fired tear gas into the truck.
Patrick Kevin Van Ness left the truck, and was arrested. The 63-year-old man was taken into custody on charges of destruction of public property and felony evasion.
