You are CORRECT on the Pepper Spray. I heard that also. It was when he was pulled over in W. V. that he sprayed the officer and took off.
The trouble is that your post uses WV to refer to "West Valley City" a very large suburb of Salt Lake, just west and south of the city...
but that causes terrible confusion now because Edmunds has been found in aNOTHER W.V., West Virginia.