Here’s what caused I-84 shutdown in Meridian. Police say one man arrested
Law enforcement took a 37-year-old Kuna man into custody Wednesday evening after a 2-mile police chase came to an end near Interstate 84, snarling traffic and forcing road closures, Meridian police said.
Officers responded at around 4:30 p.m. to reports of shots fired in the 700 block of W. Overland Road and determined that the suspect, John Handegard, fired “multiple rounds from a handgun into the air while in a parking lot,” according to a Meridian Police Department news release.
Ada County sheriff’s deputies found the man’s white truck and tried to pull him over, but police said Handegard didn’t stop, “leading them on a pursuit.”
“The pursuit ended in a dirt parking lot adjacent to Interstate 84, where the suspect refused to surrender,” the release said.
After an hourlong standoff that caused I-84 to be shut down in both directions between Ten Mile Road in Meridian and Garrity Boulevard in Nampa, Meridian police said the situation was “successfully de-escalated, and the suspect surrendered peacefully without further incident.”
Other roads in the area also were closed during the standoff out of precaution, police said.
Handegard was taken into custody and will face several misdemeanor charges, including attempting to flee and resisting or obstructing police officers, according to the release.
Online records showed he was in the Ada County Jail on Wednesday night after being booked just before 6 p.m.
