"Castro said she couldn't recall police handling any similar chase involving construction equipment during her time at the police department."

Of course, you don't specify how long she's been working there.  Found on page B2 of the September 30, 1995 ADN:

"A 32-year-old man was arrested Friday morning after he was caught driving a steamroller he had taken from a Mountain View construction site, according to the Anchorage Police Department. John Rudolph Gaetke took the machinery from a construction site on North Bragaw Street around 4 a.m. and was later spotted driving north on Bragaw by a Checker Cab driver, who alerted police. At the scene, Sgt. Ross Plummer pulled his patrol car behind the steamroller..."