RIPON -- A suspect with no pants or underwear on broke his ankles trying to flee from Ripon Police Wednesday.
Christopher M. Studer, 30, of Manteca, was apprehended on the roof of a shed and transported to San Joaquin County Hospital at around 9 p.m. Sergeant Steve Merchant said that the Ripon Police Department will be forwarding charges to the District Attorney's Office.
The entire affair began when Ripon police officer Scott King noticed a black Mazda Protege around 8 p.m. that had a defective headlamp and had made an illegal left turn.
King tried to stop the Protege as it entered southbound Highway 99, and a pursuit ensued. According to Ripon Police, speeds reached 100 mph. The suspect exited the freeway at Hammet Road in Salida and continued on northbound 99, returning to Ripon.
Eventually, the suspect abandoned the car on the lawn of Almond Valley Church, at 333 S. Wilma Ave.
The suspect ran, apparently without any pants -- or as Ripon Police put it "nude from the waist down" -- jumped a fence, and fell off a roof. It was the fall that broke his ankles, he told police later.
Two other police officers joined King in the foot pursuit, tracking Studer to a shed, where he gave up.
He told police he ran from them because he was embarrassed, apparently about his lack of pants.
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