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A Taft man arrested after a high speed car and foot chase has pleaded no contest to two felony counts.
Anthony James Lemler (also known as Anthony James Grajczyk) entered the pleas to felony evading arrest in a motor vehicle and auto theft charges in Taft branch of Kern County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Lemler, who was also wanted on a no-bail parole hold, was arrested just after midnight on Jan. 3 after he led Kern County Sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase east from South Taft on Petroleum Club Road where the stolen car he was driving overturned.
Lemler escaped the accident with no injuries.
He tried to flee on foot, but was arrested in minutes after the Kern County Sheriff's helicopter led police and deputies right to his location.
The vehicle Lemler was driving had been reported stolen minutes earlier from a Ford City convenience store.
Lemler, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 14.
He is being held without bail.
A Taft man arrested after a high speed car and foot chase has pleaded no contest to two felony counts.
Anthony James Lemler (also known as Anthony James Grajczyk) entered the pleas to felony evading arrest in a motor vehicle and auto theft charges in Taft branch of Kern County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Lemler, who was also wanted on a no-bail parole hold, was arrested just after midnight on Jan. 3 after he led Kern County Sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase east from South Taft on Petroleum Club Road where the stolen car he was driving overturned.
Lemler escaped the accident with no injuries.
He tried to flee on foot, but was arrested in minutes after the Kern County Sheriff's helicopter led police and deputies right to his location.
The vehicle Lemler was driving had been reported stolen minutes earlier from a Ford City convenience store.
Lemler, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 14.
He is being held without bail.
