By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
Early Friday morning, the Salina Police Department received a Flock Safety Camera license plate reader notification on a stolen vehicle from the Wichita area.
According to SPD Capt. James Feldman, at around 6:10 a.m., a stolen Chevrolet passenger car drove into Salina and alerted the Flock camera system.
Officers then located the vehicle around the Walmart area, but the car took off and fled south on Interstate 135.
"Officers pursued, and the pursuit was then taken over by Kansas Highway Patrol," Feldman said. "The pursuit went into McPherson County. Speeds did reach over 100 mph. The vehicle exited off I-135 and went westbound toward Marquette."
At some point in the pursuit, Feldman said either local law enforcement or KHP troopers used a tire deflation device, but the suspect continued driving on flat tires.
KHP troopers brought the pursuit to an end near Marquette and took two people into custody. The driver was 42-year-old Michael Trautloff from Haven, Kan., and the other was an unnamed female passenger with an active warrant from Sedgwick County.
Feldman said KHP troopers transported the female passenger to Wichita, and SPD officers booked Trautloff into the Saline County Jail with requested charges for one count of felony flee and elude and one count of obstruction.
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