Two men led police on a low-speed chase through southwest Bend on Sunday morning, then abandoned their truck and ran off on the Deschutes River Trail, authorities said.

With the help of a Belgian Malinois patrol dog named Duco, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies and Bend police eventually found the driver, whom they identified as Jason Daryl Walter, 37, hidden behind some rocks next to the trail.

Police officers and deputies located the passenger, Brandon Gary Will, 31, as he walked through the nearby neighborhood, authorities said. Both men are from Bend.

The pursuit began after a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop Walter near Reed Market Road and Brookswood Boulevard around 8 a.m.on suspicion of driving without a front license plate and “skidding carelessly around a corner,” according to a sheriff’s news release.

At first, Walter did not stop; then he pulled over briefly but refused to get out of the truck, according to the Sheriff’s Office. After that, Walter started driving away from the deputy until, at the intersection of Cedarwood Road and Ashwood Drive, he jumped from the truck as it was still running, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The truck continued moving for approximately 100 feet down Cedarwood Road. Fortunately, several “pretty hefty boulders” stood between the truck and a nearby home, said Lt. Kevin Dizney of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. The truck hit the boulders and came to a stop. “It was within probably another 50 feet of impacting a private fence,” Dizney said.

The sheriff’s deputy who followed Walter’s truck checked the vehicle to see if a passenger was still in it, but that person had disappeared. Later, Bend police helped locate the passenger, Will, in the neighborhood, authorities said.

Police believe Will was under the influence of “controlled substances,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. Will was arrested on suspicion of violating the conditions of his parole, according to the Deschutes County jail website.

After Duco found Walter, police arrested him on a warrant for violating the conditions of his parole, as well as suspicion of attempting to elude a police officer, driving while his license was suspended and reckless driving, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Dizney said Duco has captured several suspects during the last year. The most recent was in Crook County last month, when Duco bit a suspect in the process of apprehending him, Dizney said.

“We use that dog frequently,” Dizney said. “We have multiple captures yearly from both of our active-duty patrol dogs.”