Stolen bread truck chase ends in Spokane Valley after multi-agency pursuit
A stolen bread truck tore from Post Falls to Spokane Valley, ending when it smashed through a Harley-Davidson gate after spike strips flattened its front tires.
A stolen bread delivery truck crashed through a gate at Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson in Spokane Valley after a pursuit that started outside a Post Falls Walmart just after 5:45 a.m. Saturday. Police identified the suspect as Michael Koskinen-Patron, 34, and said he was arrested without further incident after the chase crossed the Idaho-Washington line.
Post Falls police said the truck was taken from the Walmart on Mullan Avenue and was quickly spotted westbound on Interstate 90. Officers tried to stop it, but the driver kept going, leaving I-90 at Spokane Street, heading north on Spokane Street and then west on Seltice Way. Near the state line, officers deployed spike strips that flattened the truck’s front tires, but the driver continued into Washington anyway.
Washington law enforcement agencies took over from there and deployed additional spike strips as the truck pressed on through Spokane Valley. The pursuit ended when the vehicle smashed through the gate at Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, 19011 E. Cataldo Ave., turning a commercial theft into a visible property-damage scene on a busy corridor east of downtown Spokane.
The truck appears to have been a Franz bread delivery truck, putting a morning route and a working commercial vehicle at the center of the case. Franz Bakery says it has been family-owned since 1906, a reminder that the stolen vehicle was not just transportation but part of a business operation meant to move product before sunrise. When a delivery truck is taken and driven aggressively across county and state lines, the disruption reaches far beyond the theft itself, tying up traffic on Interstate 90 and forcing officers in two states to coordinate the response.
Post Falls police said they plan to seek an Idaho arrest warrant on charges of grand theft, felony eluding and felony malicious injury to property. Washington authorities could also file charges for offenses alleged there. Idaho law treats grand theft separately from petit theft when the property value exceeds $1,000, and malicious injury to property is charged as its own crime, giving prosecutors room to stack counts if the case moves forward.
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