When a cop first pulled up behind the car driven by Theodore Ohms, the 23-year-old turned to his passenger and said, “I can’t, I can’t.” What he apparently couldn’t do was pull over. As a result, traffic was snarled for two hours on I-5 on Wednesday and one innocent woman may lose an arm.Police tried to stop Ohms because his plates were expired. What they didn’t know was that he’d just come from buying meth.Rather than pull over, Ohms sped up and rammed into a van driven by Tammy Fietkau. The van flipped on its side, trapping Feitkau’s arm in between the driver’s side door and the pavement.Ohms was eventually captured in an Everett neighborhood more than two hours after the chase began. But not before he thrust a .38 caliber handgun out of his sunroof and fired it at a trailing cop car, a reckless bit of shooting that he said wasn’t intended for harm, just warning.Fietkau is expected to survive. But doctors aren’t sure if they’ll be able to save her arm.Meanwhile, Ohms is continuing a strategy of strict non-cooperation with authority. Yesterday he refused to leave his jail cell for a court appearance, which means that today a handful of guards will have the honor of personally escorting him in front of a judge.
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