Cantwell led a high-speed chase after fleeing detention during a traffic stop near Shaniko in 2021.  After one of Cantwell’s tires blew out, Sergeant Matt Tuia pulled his patrol vehicle in behind Cantwell’s vehicle along the highway.  Cantwell got out of his vehicle and fired multiple rounds at Tuia, striking the driver’s side of the windshield and the hood of Sergeant Tuia’s vehicle. One of the rounds barely missed striking Tuia’s left side.

Police are still searching for a 23-year-old local man after he reportedly led a Wasco County Deputy on a chase to a mile outside of Shaniko on Saturday morning, Nov. 13., where police report he fired on the deputy. A SWAT team was called out to a neighborhood in west The Dalles, but no arrest was made.