Bellingham Police Department arrested a Blaine man on December 27, 2024 who was wanted for a string of felonies including burglary, assault and eluding police.
Multiple law enforcement agencies around the county were searching for Carl Ellis Woods, a 36-year-old Blaine resident, after Woods was suspected of burglarizing a home in Blaine on September 1, 2024 and assaulting the resident by strangulation.
According to an affidavit of probable cause filed in Whatcom County Superior Court, Woods attempted to kick down the back door of the Blaine home while a woman and two children were home. Woods put the woman in a headlock and left visible marks. He fled the home when a call to 911 was made.
Woods had evaded police on multiple occasions by driving recklessly, according to a December 29 statement from the Bellingham Police Department. In the early morning hours of December 27, a Western Washington University campus police officer observed Woods driving a silver Subaru with stolen license plates. Woods then turned off the Subaru’s lights and drove recklessly through downtown Bellingham, according to police.
Around 5 p.m. later that day, Woods was apprehended by Bellingham police responding to a residential burglary. Woods again attempted to elude police, driving to a dead end road on the 2100 block of Xenia Street in Bellingham where officers pinned Woods’ car and did not allow him to escape.
Woods was arrested for attempting to elude a police vehicle, harassment, DUI, driving with a suspended license, possession of stolen property, resisting arrest, additional felony warrants from previous offenses, and four additional counts of eluding other police departments.
Woods is being held in Whatcom County Jail on a $330,000 bond.
