
RICE LAKE, Minn. – St. Louis County authorities say a man is jailed for assaulting a sheriff’s deputy and fleeing into a 30-foot tall tree in Rice Lake.
Investigators say the deputy was responding to the report of a suspicious male Sunday when the suspect assaulted and strangled the deputy. The man climbed up a tree and negotiated with law enforcement for four hours before coming down.
The deputy was treated and released from the hospital.
The suspect was booked in the St. Louis County jail.
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