A resident of a Pullman apartment complex may have intentionally caused an explosion that caught the building on fire just after 5:30pm yesterday (Sun). That’s according to Pullman Police.
Pullman Fire, Moscow Fire, and Whitman County Fire District 12 firefighters fought the blaze while law enforcement agencies worked to find 40-year-old Elijah Regan. According to a press release he was spotted heading south. Whtiman County deputies and Washington State Patrol troopers pursued him. Regan was reportedly driving erratically and at excessive speeds. At 8:34pm A Pullman Police negotiator made telephone contact with Regan. He agreed to pull over and continue negotiations by phone. He stopped just over the state line at the junction of 195 and 95 at the top of the Lewiston Hill.
10 different law enforcement agencies converged on the area. The release says after a lengthy standoff, he surrendered peacefully. He was taken into custody at 11:41pm and booked into the Nez Perce County Jail on charges of Arson 1st Degree and attempting to Elude Pursuing Police Vehicles.
