State v. Argueta

Nelson Argueta appeals his conviction of attempting to elude a police officer. The statute under which he was convicted, RCW 46.61.024 (the eluding statute), requires that the signaling officer’s vehicle be “appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle.” *534The statute does not define this phrase. We hold that to be “appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle,” the signaling officer’s vehicle must bear some insignia that identifies the vehicle as an official police vehicle. Because the vehicle the signaling officer was driving in this case did not bear…