A half dozen officers from three different agencies chased a slow-moving truck around parking lots before spiking the tires and finally stopping the vehicle on the north end of Oak Harbor Wednesday night.

After a struggle, police arrested the driver, 52-year-old Paul Moyers, on suspicion of eluding pursuing police vehicles. A judge in Island County Superior Court ordered him held in jail on $50,000 bail.

For the second time in two weeks, a judge also ordered that a mental health professional evaluate Moyers for possible commitment to a mental health treatment facility. Moyers was in court last week after he was accused of harassing people in his Rolling Hills neighborhood and resisting arrest.

In the incident this week, police responded to a report of a possibly intoxicated driver in a maroon Ford F150 pickup on Highway 20 near Monroe Landing Road just after 9 p.m. Witnesses reported that the truck was driving into oncoming traffic, according to the report by Deputy Robert Mirabal with the Island County Sheriff’s Office.

The deputy caught up to the truck as it entered the city limits and put on his emergency lights to pull it over. Moyers, who was wearing a large sun hat, immediately started driving erratically and swerving into oncoming traffic.

At the intersection at Erie Street, Moyers made a “giant doughnut,” Mirabal wrote.

Officers from the sheriff’s office, the Oak Harbor Police Department and the Washington State Patrol pursued the truck as it traveled at low speeds in and out of the Safeway and Walmart parking lots. The deputy noted that dozens of pedestrians were endangered as Moyers continued to drive recklessly and swerve into parked cars, the report states.

Mirabal spiked the truck’s tires in the parking lot and flattened one of them, but Moyers continued driving as the tire disintegrated. He rammed a deputy’s car with the truck, pushing the car and disabling it.

Moyers drove to the highway and headed north, continuing to swerve into oncoming traffic. A trooper was able to use a maneuver to spin the truck around, but Moyers got away by driving on a sidewalk and grassy median, the report states.

As the truck headed north, the officers continually drove ahead to block intersections in an attempt to keep other motorists clear of the highway.

After being advised that Moyers was emotionally disturbed, Mirabal tried to relay to the other officers that the pursuit should be terminated and Moyers arrested when he wasn’t driving, but then a state trooper spiked another tire on the truck.

The deputy used a maneuver to spin the truck around on the highway just north of 16th Avenue and pinned the front bumper of the truck with the pushbar on his car.

Moyers accelerated and started spinning his tires to get away, but it didn’t work. Oak Harbor police officers pointed their guns at Moyers as he continued trying to get away, but the deputy told them to lower their guns as he approached the truck, the report states.

Moyers resisted the officers, but they were eventually able to pull him from the car and arrest him.

Mirabal noted that Moyers did not seem impaired. Moyers said he did not stop for police because “that was his job,” the report states.

Several people posted videos on Facebook of the slow-moving pursuit through the Walmart parking lot.

Moyers has had more than a dozen recent contacts with law enforcement and his behavior continued to escalate, court documents indicate.

The county Prosecutor’s Office reached out to Island County Human Services last week to see if more could be done to help Moyers, according to Deputy Prosecutor Tamara Fundrella.

“I’m hoping that we can swiftly begin competency proceedings and get to the root of his recent behavior so that we can help both him and the community get through this,” she said in an email.