Very rarely does anything happen in my Central Wisconsin town to note, but Thursday night might have been one of those moments:
A 21-year-old De Pere man who led police on a high-speed chase Thursday heard charges against him in court Friday afternoon.
Shane Dillon pleaded not guilty to operating a vehicle after license revocation. He will have to wait until 9:45 a.m. Wednesday for his preliminary hearing to enter a plea on a charge of fleeing an officer.
Dillon was convicted of fleeing an officer in February 2006 in Milwaukee and remains on probation for that offense, Marathon County Sheriff's Lt. Dale Wisnewski said. Dillon faces charges for violating probation.
Dillon had been stopped by a sheriff's deputy at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 39 near Business Highway 51 for a registration violation when he sped off, Marathon County Sheriff's Lt. Randy Albert said Thursday night.
Dillon traveled up to 140 mph as he was being pursued, said Marathon County Deputy District Attorney Theresa Merriwether.
"He endangered several motorists on the road," she said. "We're very lucky someone wasn't killed."
Dillon allegedly led police down a number of neighborhood streets in Kronenwetter and Rothschild, including Kowalski Road and Highway X. He eventually drove the vehicle into a vacant lot and then drove into a yard at a residence on the corner of West Street and County Highway X, according to police.
An officer rammed the back of Dillon's car to end the chase, police said.
That residence they are talking about is my house, as I got a first hand show at the high speed chase which ended with a cop-perp car collision in my back yard, guns drawn, and the kid being cuffed and stuffed. My friend was actually one of the cops involved in the high speed chase, so I got to talk to him about it a few minutes later.
Our yard didn't get tore up too bad considering what happened in it, but there's definitely some work that will have to be done on that area where the collision happened.
I was kinda hoping they would interview my dad, who was standing outside in his boxers to see what was going on, so that we could have our very own "Cops" moment, but that never happened.
I tried to snap some photos but most of them didn't turn out for some reason:
Cop directing traffic outside the front of my house
Cops in the backyard
Cops on the side of the house