A Marathon County couple says they were trying to give deputies more room during a high-speed chase on I-39 when they struck stop sticks intended for a fleeing driver, leaving them with nearly $300 in damage the county refuses to cover.
One of the two deputies who laid the strips wrote that the driver of a red or maroon car “appeared to be irritated” by slowing traffic and “appeared to accelerate” to get around the vehicles ahead, according to reports obtained by Wausau Pilot & Review through an open records request. Stacy Shropshire, whose Jeep is dark red, believes the deputies were describing her husband, Scott, who was driving.
“We moved right because the police activity in the median made the traffic pattern confusing and because we were intentionally trying to give the officers in the median more room,” she wrote in an email to the Pilot…