Police say suspect intentionally drove over embankment
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EVANSTON — An Evanston man was in stable condition Wednesday evening after he allegedly led law enforcement on a high-speed chase along the Wyoming/Utah border earlier in the day.
According to an incident report, the pursuit began at 11:54 a.m. Wednesday.
The Uinta County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by Evanston police after Devin R. Symons had left an apartment on Lilac Way and had allegedly been drinking and threatening and abusing his girlfriend.
Symons was driving a 2015 black Ford Focus and was on a road near the Wasatch exit in Utah, when sheriff’s deputies said he was weaving all over the road at speeds up to 100 mph. The deputies followed him until he drove back into Wyoming. Symons eventually deliberately accelerated and drove over an embankment and rolled the vehicle near the Anschutz plant. Symons was ejected from the vehicle and transported to the University of Utah hospital via AirMed.
Wednesday’s incident wasn’t Symons’ first interaction with law enforcement — the chase appeared to carry over from a domestic violence call received by the Evanston Police Department on Monday, June 14, at 11 p.m., when a concerned neighbor alerted police. According to the incident report, both Symons and his girlfriend had been drinking that night, and an argument ensued when the girlfriend asked him to put a cigarette out because her baby was in the room. The argument escalated, and Symons allegedly hit her repeatedly and destroyed her cellphone and television. He then calmed down and the altercation ended.
During the two days following the domestic violence call, Symons allegedly sent his girlfriend messages, threatening her life and their children’s lives.
“I ain’t going to jail and I ain’t walking away from this situation,” Symons allegedly wrote. “I die with it.”
Uinta County Sheriff Doug Matthews said Symons was on probation, and Evanston Police Lt. Mike Vranish confirmed that Symons was on probation through the end of this year for felony conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance. Matthews said he plans to submit charges to the Uinta County Attorney’s Office that include DUI, reckless driving, eluding law enforcement and probation violation.
