19-year-olds with stolen car surrender after chase, a crash

A Grand County neighborhood was placed on a shelter-in-place alert when authorities arrested two 19-year-olds Saturday morning.

Ely Ryszkowski and Daisy Waggoner were arrested and charged with multiple felonies after leading deputies on a chase in a stolen car, crashing and then barricading themselves inside a home outside Tabernash.

According to a press release from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy noticed the white 2000 Subaru Outback near the Granby Airport at 9:11 a.m. That car had allegedly been stolen from Kremmling the night before, and the car’s owner reported it missing at 6:50 a.m. Saturday.

As GCSO officers and Granby police officers moved in, the driver of the Subaru took off, leading officers on a chase eastbound on US 40 through Granby.

Near the intersection with Grand County Road 894, the driver swerved into a Grand County sergeant who placed “stop sticks” to deflate tires on the road, GCSO said.

Deputies made the decision to end the pursuit when they encountered icy road conditions. They lost contact with the Subaru near mile marker 218, but a citizen alerted dispatchers that the car had skidded into a ditch less than two miles later at the intersection of US 40 and County Road 5.

Grand County deputies and Fraser-Winter Park police officers tracked the occupants of the car to a nearby residence. According to GCSO, the owner of the residence said a man and woman had entered uninvited.

Nearby residents were sent an emergency notification as additional law enforcement and negotiators surrounded the home.

Ryszkowski and Waggoner voluntarily left the home at 10:28 am. Both were evaluated for injuries sustained in the crash and then taken to jail. Both are Grand County residents, according to the sheriff’s office.