FOREST LAKE, Minn. — A freeway pursuit down I-35 Friday morning ended with Minnesota State Troopers spinning out the suspect's vehicle near Forest Lake.
An incident report details how a trooper spotted a vehicle headed southbound on I-35 near North Branch in foggy conditions without its lights on. When the troopers activated their lights and sirens in an attempt to pull the driver over she refused to stop, accelerating and attempting to flee instead.
The trooper briefly stopped the pursuit due to heavy commuter traffic levels, but radioed ahead to have tire-deflating stop sticks deployed. The driver flattened her tires by driving over the sticks, slowing the car, and squads eventually used a pursuit intervention technique, better known as a PIT move, to spin her out and stop the fleeing vehicle at the Highway 97 exit near Forest Lake.
MNDOT cameras captured the end of the incident as the driver and a male passenger exited the car at gunpoint.
A records check showed the 36-year-old woman from Red Wing was wanted on outstanding warrants in Hennepin and Goodhue Counties. She was booked into the Chisago County Jail on suspicion of fleeing police.