
BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. (KFGO) – A man who cut off his ankle monitor at a Breckenridge gas station and ran from law enforcement is in the Wilkin County jail after a high-speed chase in Clay and Wilkin Counties Saturday morning.
According to Breckenridge Police, the incident began shortly before 7 a.m. when they received a call of a suspicious person at Blazer Express gas station.
Surveillance video shows the man and an employee exchanging what appears to be a clippers. The man is then seen cutting something off his lower leg, setting it on a counter, showing it to someone in the store, and then leaving.
Police said the man, identified as 54-year-old Eric Jagers from Minneapolis, was seen leaving the gas station in a tan pickup. An officer located Jagers and tried to make a traffic stop, but he fled north on Highway 75. Breckenridge Police and the Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office pursued Jagers into Clay County where the Sheriff’s Office there joined the pursuit.
Jagers then turned around in a field and took off southbound on Highway 75, leading officers on a chase that reached speeds of up to 90 mph.
Law enforcement made several attempts to stop the vehicle with spike strips, but they were unsuccessful.
Eventually, police said Jagers left the road at the intersection of Highways 75 and 210 on the north side of Breckenridge where he hit a street sign and stopped. Jagers then got out of his pickup truck holding a bow. Breckenridge Police and Clay County Sheriff’s Office officers deployed less-than-lethal bean bag and pepper ball rounds at Jagers and he was taken into custody.
Jagers was evaluated at St. Francis Medical Center for minor injuries from the rounds and was then booked into the Wilkin County Jail for fleeing in a motor vehicle and obstructing the legal process.
No one was hurt and the incident remains under investigation.
Earlier this week, Jagers who is a former Minneapolis firefighter, was charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon after prosecutors said he made a racial slur against a former University of Minnesota Gophers football star and fired a gun in a south Minneapolis alley.
Tellis Redmon, 44, was the Gophers running back from 1999 to 2001. He was not injured, even though the gun was fired next to his head as the two fought for the weapon.
Investigators said a half-hour before, Jagers fired a handgun outside a fire station on the city’s north side, later telling authorities “He thought it would be funny to do so.” Jagers’ defense attorney said his client has mental health issues he will be addressing, and regrets if his actions reflect badly on his former profession as a Minneapolis firefighter.
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