A Kingfisher woman was arrested east of Kingfisher Saturday evening after a high-speed chase with a Kingfisher County Sheriff’s deputy.

Bond was set Monday at $10,000 for Audrey Lynn Markus, 32, of Kingfisher, who remained jailed as of Tuesday afternoon. Formal charges had not yet been filed.

Markus was driving a 2010 Toyota Tundra pickup truck which had been reported stolen in Logan County, according to a sheriff’s report.

Authorities were still searching for a white man who was seen pumping gas into the vehicle when it was first spotted by a sheriff’s deputy on Saturday. He was not in the truck when it was eventually stopped.

Local law enforcement had been on the lookout for the truck since late December, when the Waukomis Police Department reported that the vehicle was involved in a theft at the County Inn Motel in Waukomis on Dec. 27.

Motel employees reported that a TV and remote had been stolen from one of the motel rooms, along with a pillow and bed sheet.

After the theft was discovered, motel employees viewed surveillance videos and observed a man and a woman exiting the motel room and getting into the Toyota Tundra pickup truck.

A second man is then seen leaving the room carrying something wrapped in a white sheet, which was placed in the back of the pickup truck, according to the report.

A woman signed the motel registration slip and presented a driver’s license that was later determined to have been stolen Dec. 3 from a vehicle in a Walmart parking lot in Newcastle.

Items left behind in the motel room included mail addressed to two Kingfisher residents, which later were determined to have been stolen from mailboxes a week or so earlier, according to a separate sheriff’s office report.

Waukomis police also reported that the Tundra appeared to have an Oklahoma license plate that was removed from a different vehicle.

“We had every deputy paying attention for this vehicle as we had knowledge of it being in our county before,” Sheriff Dennis Banther said Tuesday.

Deputy James McNew was on patrol about 5:25 p.m. Saturday when he spotted a white Toyota Tundra in the Casey’s General Store parking lot at the corner of Main Street and Broadway Avenue in Kingfisher.

McNew observed a man pumping gas into the truck and McNew drove behind it to read the license plate to a dispatcher, who reported the tag was registered to a different vehicle, according to the report.

McNew drove east on West Sheridan Avenue and stopped at the Main Street intersection, where he saw the truck leave the parking lot and head south on Main Street, turning east on Don Blanding Avenue.

McNew followed and then activated his lights and sirens when he saw the vehicle again at the intersection of South Fifth Street and Bowman Avenue, according to the report.

The truck turned east onto Bowman and accelerated to speeds reaching 65 miles per hour down the residential street, then drove into the county’s “road closed” sign without stopping.

With the sheriff’s vehicle still following, the truck left the roadway and traveled through the creek bed at the site of the Bowman Avenue bridge replacement project.

The truck ran another stop sign at the S.H. 33 intersection and turned east, where the driver lost control and ended up in the ditch on the north side of the highway, facing west.

The truck pulled back onto the highway traveling west and McNew pulled his SUV in the path of the fleeing vehicle, attempting to stop it.

The driver attempted to turn around and lost control a second time, ending up in the southside ditch, where McNew attempted to pin the truck by ramming the driver’s side door with the brush guard on the front of his SUV.

At that point, McNew saw that a white female wearing a green cap was behind the wheel of the truck, according to his report.

The driver managed to pull the truck out of the ditch, grinding against the passenger side door of the sheriff’s vehicle in the process, and continued to flee east on S.H. 33, reaching speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour and passing multiple vehicles.

Deputy Charles Snyder radioed McNew and said he was waiting to intercept the vehicle at Reeding Road, where he planned to put out spike strips to deflate the truck tires, according to the report.

But the vehicle turned east on County Road 800 where the woman bailed out the driver’s side door and continued on foot as the truck rolled into a ditch on the south side of the road.

Gun drawn, McNew approached the vehicle on foot in search of the man he had seen earlier at the gas station, but found only a dog in the front seat of the vehicle, according to his report.

In a subsequent search of the area, McNew, Snyder and Deputy David Roller found the woman later identified as Markus hiding in a nearby dumpster, according to the report.

The dog was taken to the Kingfisher Animal Shelter and Markus was taken to Mercy Hospital Kingfisher to be checked for injuries and then booked into the county jail, according to the report.

Banther said Tuesday that his office was obtaining a search warrant for the pickup truck and expected to submit final reports to the district attorney’s office requesting formal charges Tuesday afternoon.

The sheriff’s office also has requested a copy of the security video from Casey’s to see if the man pumping gas into the pickup truck could be identified but had not obtained the video by press time, Banther said.

He said he did not have an estimate for damages to the sheriff’s vehicle, which he said was a 2014 Chevrolet Tahoe.

Banther commended McNew for what he describes as “patroling with a purpose” – the alertness to spot the stolen truck – as well as his fellow deputies for the search to find the truck’s driver.

He said McNew and other deputies have been working diligently since Saturday to identify the male suspect.

“We anticipate having him named in the next couple of days and preparing reports for charges against him as well,” Banther said, commending the “team effort” among his deputies.

“I am proud to watch the work they produce,” he said.