Wanted man who rammed patrol car gets 17 years

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday told Shane J. Pariseau that he is running out of chances after he escaped a high-speed police in 2018 only to be found days later in a Spokane hotel room with what one prosecutor described as a “mountain” of drugs.

Pariseau, 40, was sentenced this week to 17 years in federal prison. The new sentence follows a 15-year federal sentence from a 2005 conviction for selling a pound of methamphetamine to undercover officers in Spokane.

“The last time you were released, you immediately put the demon suit back on,” U.S. District Court Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson told Pariseau. “One of my jobs is to protect the public … from you going out and doing the same thing. You are a danger.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Herzog had asked Peterson to sentence Pariseau to just under 22 years in federal prison. But Peterson instead sentenced Pariseau to a combined sentence of 17 years for the new drug conviction along with several violations of his supervised release.

Defense attorney Virginia Rockwood told Peterson that her client accepted responsibility for his actions and that he's had lifelong addiction.