PORT ANGELES – 22-year-old Larissa Garrison of Port Angeles was sentenced to a year and a day of total confinement in state prison on Tuesday.
Garrison was found guilty of Attempting to Elude Police and endangering the public, and two counts of Hit & Run following a dramatic police pursuit in March of 2018. That chase also resulted in the arrest of 27-year-old Brandon Schwagler of Port Angeles.
Officers were called to what had begun as a suspected domestic violence case involving Schwagler, who reportedly had also shot a weapon at a car and was considered armed and dangerous.
Police were pursuing a vehicle driven by Garrison, with Schwagler as the passenger, and eventually stopped them using a PIT maneuver, but when Schwagler jumped from the car and ran, the officer chased him on foot. That’s when Garrison sped off again in the car.
She was later found driving on the west side of Port Angeles, but after crashing head-on with a police car, she again escaped, speeding west on Highway 101.
That’s when officers determined that, given her dangerous and erratic driving, the pursuit would be terminated.
Garrison ultimately abandoned the vehicle and was found hiding near Lower Elwha Road.
Schwagler was arrested the following day after a resident reported seeing him in a gulley near Hancock Street, and charged with Domestic Violence, Obstruction/Resisting Arrest, Drug Possession and other charges.