GLYNDON, Minn. (KFGO) – A Lake Park, Minnesota man is in the Clay County Jail in Moorhead for leading deputies on a pursuit where speeds exceeded 110 mph.
Sheriff Mark Empting says with lights and siren activated, a deputy tried to stop a car for speeding on Highway 10 near Hawley shortly before noon Monday.
Empting says the driver turned south onto State Highway 9 and then headed east onto gravel and minimum maintenance roads. A deputy was setting up stop sticks when 40-year-old Cody Johnson stopped the car and ran. A K9 arrived on the scene and Johnson was located. He was arrested for fleeing a police officer in a vehicle and on foot, driving after cancellation and drug possession.
A passenger in the car was released.
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