Baker City Man Gets 220 Days, Probation for Fleeing Police

Alexander Alen Adams ducked into his Ninth Street home, waited five minutes, then burst back out the door and ran — ignoring officers who had already told him, multiple times, that he was under arrest. Six law enforcement officers gave chase that November night. None of them caught him.

That sprint cost Adams, now 30, considerably more than the few minutes of freedom it bought. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in Baker County Circuit Court to second-degree escape, a Class C felony, along with fourth-degree assault, resisting arrest, third-degree escape, all Class A misdemeanors, and a probation violation. Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Spaulding said Adams was sentenced to 220 days in the county jail and three years of probation.

The November chase unfolded on a dead-end stretch of Ninth Street south of Auburn Avenue, where Baker City Police Lt. Wayne Chastain said Adams apparently had been living. Four Baker City Police officers, a Baker County Sheriff's deputy, and an Oregon State Police trooper converged on the scene on Nov. 10. Chastain said one officer recognized Adams and knew there was an active arrest warrant. Even after officers told Adams about the warrant, he ran. He disappeared into the Ninth Street home, re-emerged about five minutes later, ignored orders to stop a second time, and outran the pursuit. He was arrested roughly three months later.

It was not the first time Adams had fled down that same street. On Nov. 23, 2023, he ran from officers who tried to arrest him on a warrant, a chase that began after he allegedly called 911 from the Ninth Street home. During that 2023 pursuit, Adams threw two cellphones at the officers chasing him. He pleaded guilty to resisting arrest on Jan. 9, 2024, and received 363 days of probation; a third-degree escape charge from that incident was dismissed in an agreement with the district attorney's office.

Probation, it turned out, became a recurring thread in Adams' court history. On April 11, 2025, he pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 12 months of probation. That conviction produced the arrest warrant for probation violation that officers were trying to serve on Ninth Street when Adams ran again last fall.

Wednesday's guilty plea in Baker County Circuit Court resolved five charges spanning the 2025 and early 2026 incidents. The 220-day jail sentence and three years of probation represent the most substantial consequences Adams has faced across what is now a multi-year pattern of flight from Baker City officers.