on July 20th 2024 a deputy from the Bernett County Sheriff's Office was on patrol when he saw a driver he recognized to have an active warrant for his arrest when the deputy activated his emergency lights the vehicle accelerated and began fleeing before the driver pulled over after a short Pursuit the suspect left his truck and drive while stepping out causing him to fall over the female passenger was able to climb in the driver's seat and put it in park get on the ground right now get on the ground get on the the ground [ __ ] I'm not going anywhere 53 I need units at North Pine 420 North Pine I got a mail at bailed for me he's down on the ground get on your stomach throw your cigarette out you're not lighting a cigarette who's with you driver get out of the car put your arms out like an airplane out to your sides get out of the car with your hands up well get out that's fine keep your hands out you're fine keep C you keep your hands out rolls keep your arms out I got an ambulance coming come backwards towards me come backwards towards me come towards me just walk towards me you yes walk towards me put your arms out Al driver Li keep walking backwards Al what do you mean what did you do you're running yes keep walking backwards put your arms out to your side Joseph yeah put it on to your side keep walking backwards keep walking backwards keep walking backwards keep walking backwards I'm going to put you in handcuff so we figure out what's going on okay okay all right what's your first name all right so SC right now I don't know what the f about so Joseph's got warrant relax your hands yep all right that one kind of tight relax all right Bridget can you take care of her quick yeah Andrew let's hi and C him don't move don't move I just being a part of everything what's hurt just this arm okay that's the only reason why I did that well I wasn't trying to run from you were trying to run from me no I was trying to get her off no you were trying to run from me and you jumped out anyone else relax your arm put your arm behind your back got hurt d you guys want to clear that car which one that one the one behind us yeah hold on relax relax Roll On Your Side anything that's going to poke me stick me or cut me no I got a knife in the other Pock is there anyone else in the track yeah that female back there I jumped out cuz I didn't want her to be involved you jumped out and you almost got ran over I know you were driving you were driving cuz I saw you all right let's get you s up cig before we'll get you a cigarette all right all right I got an an's coming to check y'all okay you can tell them that you don't want to be seen all right stand up for me one two three yeah pocket that that I think so carap all right let's walk back this way let's walk back I'm just going to have you sit on the front of my squad while that ambulance comes okay did the truck run you over when you got out or did you just fall out of it I caught myself okay all right lean up against here man I panic dude cuz I didn't want her to be in trouble I understand that but you you were actually running right you took this corner at probably 50 m hour I'm prob roll not this one the one before probably 40 I no I was only doing 25 when I hit the corner but I um I sped up a little bit after I know you sped up cuz you saw me hit my lights no that wasn't that wasn't I knew you were coming when you turned around I knew you coming and then I hit my lights and you accelerated out of the way before right so somebody want to stand with him for a second are you injured at all I don't think so okay my name is Bailey I to the Sheriff's Office yes sir you're not under arrest at this point okay you're in handcuffs just because of the whole circumstances right what is Mr to you your boyfriend or your girlfriend my ex your boyfriend sorry we broke up but yeah he's my ex-boyfriend all right I I know at some point you got in the driver seat yeah because he just jumped out I didn't know what the happen I'm going to read you your Miranda Rights okay you're not you're not under arrest at this point but just because you're in handcuffs and there's 17 squads here I got to read you this okay all right you have the right to make anything you say Canon will be used against you in court of law you have the right to talk to our lawyer and have him or her present with you are being questioned if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer one be appointed to repres represent you uh before any question if you wish you can decide anytime exercise these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements do you understand each of these rights I've explained to you yes sir okay having these rights in mind do you wish to talk to me now I don't talk I just have a couple of questions about what happened that's all thank you guys do you need anything no just have a couple of questions that I want to ask you about what happened that's all like I said you're not under arrest at this point but are you willing to answer some of my questions I don't I don't know what questions I don't I just want to know what happened that's all I don't know what's going on so well can I ask you some questions are you willing to answer some questions I mean I don't know okay what's up to you stand right there for me okay I'm sorry okay are you willing to answer some of my questions happen I I don't know well you're the only one that would know that answer though so I have questions about what happened and you ended up in the driver seat of this car what happened when Joseph jumped out of the car almost goty ran over and was trying to run from me that's those are the questions I wasn't in park and I didn't understand what was happening so I had to those are the questions that I want to ask you though ma'am but because you're in handcuffs I want to make sure that you're aware of your Miranda Rights okay are you willing to answer some of my questions I don't know what questions you're going to ask I just told you what questions I was going to ask can you put your so scared right now I don't cuz he's going to go on mine eventually moving car he got some scrapes and stuff I don't know if he actually got caught underneath the car or not but the car was still rolling so I met him by Jokers grab me ah grab me a couple should be in that in the brown or the gray toolbox underneath the tray yeah so I met him him on I recognized him he was driving and I turned around and hit Oak Street there was one car in between us I hit my lights went around it he [ __ ] canned it hit this one kicked up a bunch of dust the people that were standing on the road on Anderson over here when I drove by were like holy cuz he was driving that fast came in here right about where my squad is he rolled out of the driver's seat and she jumped over to the driver's seat and he he was on the ground I thought he got ran over by the truck and then I proned him he just stayed on the ground and proned out there and I got her out but he's got War out Cumberland and some other places and is on paper so what's he on paper for drugs I would assume yeah drugs and a couple other things I think so but this thing screw up oh look at that there you go good old classic meth pipe did not burn your lips bunch of white powdery substance looks like meth or coke maybe fent maybe fentanyl I'm just going to he you want to back up where's your uh breast pocket um we got all this right yeah well the older marijuana gives us PC I was I was going to act 79 it based off all their behavior and his behavior well in the older yeah yeah the whole truck yeah it's not unlock Andrew there's needles here too just careful okay yeah this I mean you can see how fast they were going 100% I would he's got like cream [ __ ] all over the place good yep good boss what's that everything good no everything's not good what do you mean what do you mean is everything good you know what just happened yeah okay who is this chick to you she's my ex I was trying to get back with okay whose truck is this okay all right I'm going to read you your Miranda Rights you know ever heard heard of those before yeah yeah okay I'm going to read those to you all right you have the right to make anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law having these rights in mind do you wish to talk to me or answering my questions you do okay what happened just tell me from the start well I was driving can can you just speak up just a hair I know you got a smoke in your mouth but I can't driving in town and I seen you know you guys whatever and I just I was coming up here I was just coming up to visit okay I got a um an auger that I need a a battery for okay and um I was going to stop here whatever and talk to him and see if you had and when you guys turned around I freaked out I didn't want her to get in trouble so I just yeah I tried to get out so that I panic and I it freaked out I didn't you know I mean I didn't want nothing to happen to her so I just I thought if I got out of the car and everything that you know no more stress or nothing would be got on so I apologize for that I was not trying to I know better than you were trying to get away though I was trying to get away from her yeah I didn't want her to be involved in my [ __ ] that's all get away from her or get away from me get away from her like get where like you were going to do with me had nothing you know would have nothing to do with her that's and I just panicked and [ __ ] didn't know how to deal with are the are the bags in the car those belong to her do you have any property in the car I do what property is yours I have uh couple things in the back and I have a bag that was on the floor what color is that bag uh it a plastic bag plastic bag okay what about the little blue backpack or that other bag that's on the back and was hers well no on the right side there's a black and white bag and a blue bag like a blue backpack um they're not mine they're not yours okay and you have you some stuff in the back of the truck he said okay you got warrants obviously you knew that that's why you're trying to get away that's I I really wasn't trying to run well you told me earlier that you you accelerated I did I did yeah get up here so that I could get her out get out of the car that's what I was I was trying to do is get out cuz you were driving and then at some point you must have F you fell out of the you tried jumping out of the driver's seat and you fell out and then she slid over to the driver seat I thought I stopped but I didn't no you came in here like a bat out of hell you can see the skip marks that was from my no there's tire skid marks oh there mhm so the EMTs didn't think he needed to go to the hospital for any of that what's that no okay you said if I have any problems or anything they call them and they'll come up and cabby any chance you'd be willing to come over to Grantsburg and grab a female going to jail too for what the bag of drugs and the meth pipe can I get my can can you put my stuff out out of the truck please well I'm going we got to figure out what we're going to do at the truck so well I'm sure and you be all right with and we can ask him so I'm going to put these on in front of you though okay thank you you're welcome go ahead may I can talk you out of a drink of that soda that I got sitting right there I'll give you a sit here okay 10 for all right let's walk back this way you just slide that in your pocket this way I'm going to search it one more time okay just put them in there that's fine we'll grab the rest of your property too can we have M have a seat in your car yeah okay uh we're talk back this way I I'll take responsibility what do you mean you well you already Joel you already told me though those bags weren't yours so all right have a seat in here okay we'll get you taken care of her in a minute okay yeah he's been search his pockets are all empty he's just got some cigarette buts in his breast pocket you the window down bro I got yep we can crack them all right watch your legs here okay um can you um I got them Planters y them boots the auger and U and that that plastic bag that was on the floor whatever tell where it is um could I please get them at least yeah we'll figure it out here okay we're not going to go anywhere right yet okay long and short of it what happened was is I met him by Jokers and he was going west and I turned around on him he was driving and then they hit Oak and there was one car between us so I turned my lights on cuz I ran him he's got warrants turned my lights on and he [ __ ] cand it hit Anderson to the point where the people on the side of the that's where Rizzo went he went to go see if he could find them yeah uh they were like holy [ __ ] so I had my lights and sirens on he [ __ ] cans it comes North through here I can see the dust when he hits the corner goes around I come around the corner and he had jumped out of the driver's seat falling out on the ground and the truck was still driving and she must have jumped over to the driver's seat and stopped it but he was laying on the ground when I got here he he had just gotten up and was going to start to run I started yelling him and then he just pred out but he's going to go I'm hoping he got a hold of somebody down there otherwise he's going to go for sure for the warrants uh he's he already made a comment that he saw my lights and accelerated so he can go for the felony flea if not Reckless sa danger safety yeah so only one person that I could find that saw him drive past that's okay he gave a verbal statement gave his information okay he said in his opinion he went by so fast that if a kid would have been on his biky to kill him okay perfect and he was standing on the side of the road wasn't he Tim he was standing right by his house yeah yeah said he watched him drive past it was just a blur and then he watched me I'm assuming yeah he said he saw you with your lights and sirens on going after because we can hear your sirs but our radio froze that's what Andrew said I'm like dude what's I think there's just too much frequency in one area I think so and dispatches they can't keep up so I mean based out this area you easily have Rec in I mean it's a it's a residential area and oh yeah you know yeah well especially with Tim statement well and he knew that he was potentially wanted it cuz he got into it with his PO he told me that so he knew he had Wars he said he knew I was coming after him when he saw me turn around on my Jokers and then change his story and he told me I asked him post Miranda if any of the property in that car was his and he said the only the bag on the on the floor and then when I told him she I she said she I told him he's she's going to jail he's like well I'll take ownership for it I'm like no you already told me that those bags were her there's female products in them you're not taking the blame if you would have cop to it right away and said yeah the shit's in the car is mine but you already said that wasn't yours so just cuz you don't want her to go to jail doesn't mean you're going to take ownership for that so but still tearing that thing apart yeah in the back so there was a bunch of stuff in the back that we hadn't gotten to the cab is done so do you have any bags how big and any size it doesn't matter I'm out of mine so hi hi what's going on what do you mean I was told you have some questions for me I don't know I have questions I don't know I don't know what's going on I don't understand any of this well I think that you understand some of it okay not really I didn't know he was wanted I thought he he doesn't have a driver's license he's got warrants okay at this point I already read you Miranda rits and you were not sure what you wanted to do which is perfectly you're right what do you mean I wasn't sure what I wanted to do you didn't know if you wanted to answer any of my questions which is fine I know what questions you have I don't know what's going on well I'm not going to tell you the questions I have before I ask you before you answer that question cuz then it puts me in a bind okay I have questions about the Stop and everything that included in it okay okay well you didn't never said that yes I did I no no you didn't you just kept saying you had questions about the stop okay what do you what questions about the stop I don't understand so I will I will reread these Miranda rights to you okay B you have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in the Court a law having these rights in mind do you wish to talk to me to answer any of my questions okay answer questions about to stop like what questions do you have about the stop well I want to know what happened tell me from start to finish as soon as you guys saw me down by on the back side of Joker's bar or right by the laundry mat tell me what happened after that he started acting I don't know we went around the corner and then he just jumped out and I was like oh you didn't even put it in park what the and I jumped in the driver's seat and put it in park at what point did you see the flashing red and blue lights and hear the siren behind you I never heard the siren at all okay what property in that truck belongs to you I have a Las Vegas bag and is that the blue one or is that the black and no it's the black and white and then I got clothes behind the seat I mean behind the seat okay um I mean I was in the middle of doing my hair there's stuff in the GL you have a hairbrush in the car yeah is it a silver pink one silver hairbrush round no pink one okay the silver hairbrush isn't yours I don't know what silver hair you're talking about whose blue backpack is it blue backpack yeah the blue backpack style bag with the female type products in it the different makeup products the blue bags yes the blue bag with the female products in it what kind of female products I just told you makeup products hair products I mean I have makeup in my it's like a green it's with the broken zipper no it's blue it's like a dark blue I can't think of it right now I don't know does this truck belong to you yes okay when is the last time you used methamphetamine earlier today earlier today okay what did Joseph say to you when he saw my red and blue lights cuz he he already admitted that he saw me turn around he didn't say anything he just turned the corner and I was like what the are you doing how how fast were you going how fast was he going I don't know I don't know what was wasn't paying attention to that I was just like did he speed up or did he slow down when he saw my red and blue lights I don't even know if he saw him he just started acting erratic oh he saw him he told me he saw him well I don't know what he was doing or seeing all I know is I was in the I was doing my hair at the time and I was in the passenger seat and he started driving a little more I'm like what the is what the do so I smacked him in the arm I'm like what are you doing you know and then next you know he's jumping out what is the what is the bag full of stuff in there that bag what do you mean bagful St the the plastic bag with a knot in it with the white substance in it I don't know sir so here's here's where we're at you're both going to jail you're going to jail for that substance okay the truck belongs to you there's female stuff in that in that bag consistent with things that you're describing right makeup products hair products that kind of stuff no my makeup products are in a green bag zipper bag clear green bag it was on the armrest he said it wasn't his I he told me what property was his I don't know and it wasn't that big okay oh my God so that's where we're at right now okay we're waiting on a on a v on a on a deputy to come up here he's going to pick you up bring you down to pop County get you transported down there and get you taken care of okay have you ever been in trouble before a long time ago a long time ago how long is a long time ago 2014 okay for what for drugs how long have you been using meth and mean I an off sense then some nasty [ __ ] I know okay I how often are you using daily pretty much how much a day I have no idea okay where were you guys coming from tonight um he had Frederick I think cuz he wanted to get a he had some side job that we were trying to go talk to the homeowner about okay when is the last time Joel used have you guys been together all day he used today he used this morning with you okay whose dope is it I don't know what dope you're talking about I I just told you so lightting me going to grab it and showing it to you which I I can do if you want me to but I don't know if that's going to rec you know refresh your recollection any enough to tell me who it is but it was in a blue like a Navy leather type backpack in uh there was a hot rail pipe a broken piece of a bubble pipe I don't know you know you are you smoking or you banging I smoke who bangs I know he used to but I thought he stopped cuz there's needles in that car too oh my God okay so I I know he used to but I know kind of down or you just using M no my arms are killing me right now okay why don't you swing out this way I'll check those cuffs for you he was they're good with that truck staying there yeah okay are you okay with the truck stay in here okay I'll save you a toe Bill let me check these cuffs for you they're loose enough where I can fit a finger in them okay so sit tight okay Mason's almost here so if you want we can just if you're comfortable bringing her on to the PD I'll meet you I'll get Austin out of here um I don't know where the keys for that are I think they're in there are the keys in the truck you know you want to check quick I get I get it right I get it I got this for you too Joel that's yours right want me want take that one or probably F out do you want it or no that here you go there's a flat Mountain Dew I gave my key to my trailer broer yeah can you go over there clean that for me dud so I don't lose my [ __ ] I told him I don't know what's all yours everything in the camper is mine all right and and is it okay if his truck stays here or can we keep it safe or something remember can we move it yeah we don't have the key though the keys are I think he's got I think the keys are in the truck so yeah you got the key there or in the truck in the truck she said she's taking like if I get trouble for this this is [ __ ] but no I guess she lives in Superior now and she's left this Sal so that's good all right are you good yeah is Mason going to take him or is he going right to the jail uh he's going to the jail Mason's going to take her to poke and then come back and get her when or get Joel when he's done okay I'm going to go to GPD and then do the online rate there I'm going to test that bag at GPD okay so cuz I don't know if I have any once you get the online pre-book I'll just do the paper happy with whatever you trying my phone all right yeah see you thank you for help I'm sorry it's [Music] okay my laptop beeping that just means stay Patrol hit the panic button for mock I know and it I guess it beeps until I turned off is it empty yeah all right save the C throw that away you want this to be when we drive would you be able to take this it's all right I appreciate it have a good night the driver Joseph was found guilty for vehicle operator fleeing or eluding an officer he was sentenced to one year in prison 18 months of extended supervision and ordered to pay a $750 fine the female passenger Melissa was found guilty for possession of drug paraphernalia and ordered to pay a $750 fine