Cops chase driver
Ex-Olympian captured after police pursue him through Park Meadows
Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF
Park City police officers arrested a famous skier on Sunday after a car chase through Park Meadows that the police say reached speeds as fast as 50 mph.
The man's attorney disputes the department's report and instead claims that police officers were rough with his client when he was arrested.
Lt. Rick Ryan said Jeremy Nobis, 35, was drunk when he led the police on the 20-minute chase starting about 1:40 a.m. on March 12.
Ryan said an officer noticed Nobis driving erratically at the intersection of Park Avenue and Deer Valley Drive. He was following another driver too closely and was ignoring lanes, Ryan said.
An officer tried to stop Nobis, who pulled into the parking lot at the Park Avenue Albertsons and slowed down before accelerating and then fishtailing the 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche he was driving, Ryan said.
He sped out of the parking lot onto Homestake Road and headed toward Park Meadows, traveling on Kearns Boulevard, Monitor Road, Lucky John Drive, Little Kate Road and Racquet Club Drive, Ryan said.
Nobis struck a tree on the side of the road on Racquet Club Drive, regained control of the Avalanche, returned to Little Kate Road and collided with a police officer's SUV at the intersection of Little Rate Road and Lucky John Drive, Ryan said. He said the driver side of the Avalanche struck the front fender of the passenger side of the police vehicle.
Nobis tried to run away but the police caught him within a few seconds, Ryan said.
Five officers were involved in the chase, Ryan said.
The police charged Nobis with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving and evading the police.
Ryan said Nobis was alone in the SUV and no injuries were reported.
Ryan said the chase was smart because there was less of a chance that bystanders or other drivers being injured because of the time.
"The officers felt that continuing the pursuit at that time, the safety factor to the citizens and the community was not jeopardized," Ryan said.
He could not recall a similar police pursuit in recent years.
Ned Stone, the lawyer representing Nobis, said his client will plead not guilty to the charges. He claims that there are "significant discrepancies" between the police report and what Nobis says happened.
Stone said, for instance, that Nobis claims not to have reached 50 mph.
During the arrest, Stone said, Nobis struck his head on the ground several times. He said the police had "thrown (him) to the ground."
"I think they used more force than necessary," Stone said.
Nobis lives in Salt Lake City and was in Park City to attend a fundraiser, Stone said. Stone declined to make Nobis available for an interview.
Nobis competed in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics, the U.S. Ski Team said. On its World Wide Web site, Teton Gravity Research, which makes extreme sports movies, said Nobis spent eight years on the Ski Team, was a U.S. champion in 1994 and placed ninth in the giant slalom in the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994.
He likes "skiing fast (super G style) down big Alaskan peaks," the Web site said.
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03-20-2006, 01:28 PM #1
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Cops chase Nobis
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Old's Cool.
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03-20-2006, 01:30 PM #2
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that sucks
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03-20-2006, 01:31 PM #3
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uh oh...
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03-20-2006, 01:34 PM #4
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I am so disappointed that nobis drives an avalanche
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03-20-2006, 01:36 PM #5
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Nobi drives an Avalanche?
hear that?
thats my crest falling
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03-20-2006, 01:38 PM #6
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Looks from the report that he made several turns. If he'd have straightlined it, he would have got away.
Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.
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03-20-2006, 01:39 PM #7
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Dumb ass.
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03-20-2006, 01:39 PM #8
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sucks, but if true, he is an idiot and deserves whatever happens.
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03-20-2006, 01:40 PM #9
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Bummer fo sure!
At least he wasnt in his big old black van that had your daughter in it!Points on their own sitting way up high
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03-20-2006, 01:42 PM #10
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What do you think the chances are that Dynastar and North Face are willing to include attorney's fees in his contract next year?
Hopefully evading the cops isn't a felony in UT like it is in WA."You look like you just got schnitzled..."
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03-20-2006, 01:43 PM #11
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I'm no lawyer, but I'd say he is f-u-c-k-e-d. DUI in Utah? Bad enough as is. But evading police? Hit and run? That's a fucking felony....what an idiot. Smells like jail time to me. Sorry to say it, but drunk drivers who run from police swerving and hitting stuff on the sidewalk, famous skiers or not, deserve to go to pound me in the ass prison. Thank God he didn't kill anyone else or himself. What a shame.
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03-20-2006, 01:44 PM #12
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Why oh why don't people learn that you can't run from the cops?
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03-20-2006, 01:44 PM #13
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Running was a big mistake. I hope it does not cost him his sponsor.
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03-20-2006, 01:44 PM #14
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Originally Posted by Beaver
Totally. Then to cry about the treatment he got from the police after crashing into their car and then trying to run from them, what an idiot. Hope he has friends who can give him a ride to the hill.
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03-20-2006, 01:46 PM #15
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Bwwaaaa. His stock just went up in my book. Thats hilarious. Not too smart but hilarious.Remember when Seth Morrison did something similar? I think he might have 'borrowed' a SUV and bashed it off a couple of parked cars in Jackson mabey? Nobis definately shoulda straightlined it.
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03-20-2006, 01:49 PM #16
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North Face edition, I'm guessing. Originally Posted by Woodsy
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03-20-2006, 01:50 PM #17
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funny LB thought the same thing
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03-20-2006, 01:51 PM #18
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Didn't Nobis pick up DWI after the High Life premier up in Jackson a couple years back? I think he was drunk as hell driving down the village road and I am pretty sure that he was in jail with my roomate, who got nailed for the same thing that night.
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03-20-2006, 01:55 PM #19
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is this serious...a North Face Edition Avalanche? God, I hope not.
Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.
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03-20-2006, 01:55 PM #20
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this sucks.
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03-20-2006, 01:56 PM #21
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I never pictured Nobis to be like that, but yea... dumbass.
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03-20-2006, 01:57 PM #22
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Why not? Great fucking image he's bringing down on every single skier. Originally Posted by Cono Este
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03-20-2006, 01:59 PM #23
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Sucks, definitely bad decision. That said, FUCK COPS!!
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03-20-2006, 02:00 PM #24
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Yeah, upholding the law n'shit. Those dicks.
Hemlock: what if he'd run over someone you love?
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03-20-2006, 02:01 PM #25
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Total douches for what would have probably been a routine stop! Yeah! Originally Posted by hemlock hiker
You fucking retard.
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