HIGH-SPEED MOTORCYCLE CHASE ENDS WITH ARREST OF TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE

A high speed chase through Twentynine Palms Tuesday morning, with speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, ended with the arrest of a Twentynine Palms Marine. According to a Sheriff’s report, about 8:19, Deputy Wayne Greer attempted to stop a motorcycle rider in Twentynine Palms traveling westbound on Indian Trail at Indian Flower Avenue, for going 90 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour speed limit zone. The motorcycle sped away on Indian Trail and Lear Avenue at speeds of over 100 miles per hour. The deputy caught up to the 2013 Yamaha, YZF R1 motorcycle, described as a “black crotch rocket” at Lear Avenue and Highway 62, at which time, the report states, the rider, later identified as Zachary Flores, 21, looked over his left shoulder and sped away again, at speeds in excess of 150 miles per hour, westbound on Highway 62. Greer states Flores passed cars in the center turn lane, and ran a red light at the highway at Sunburst Avenue, before finally stopping at Commercial Street and El Reposo in Joshua Tree. Zachary Flores, a Marine with Combat Logistics Battalion-7, was arrested for investigation of felony failure to yield, booked at the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $100,000.