Fatal Encounters

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Pablo Bonilla

Name: Pablo Bonilla
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 04/01/2006
Location: Mission Rd. and Banwell Rd.
Alanson, Michigan, 49706
County: Emmet
Agency: Emmet County Sheriff's Office
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Deputies responded at about 1:32 a.m. to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in a driveway. While checking the area, deputies saw a Pontiac matching the description leaving a driveway. According to the sheriff, the deputies turned their vehicle around, and the Pontiac sped off southbound on Mission Road. The deputies turned on their lights and siren, but couldn't catch up to the fleeing vehicle, police said. Deputies said they lost sight of the Pontiac at several points until they approached the intersection of Mission and Banwell roads where they discovered it had crashed into a parked van. The driver, Pablo Bonilla, was killed in the crash. The passenger was treated and released.
Unique ID: 21073

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