On Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 4, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office got a call about a vehicle tied to a pursuit with Brown County. Officials say that chase started after the suspect fled a traffic stop and struck a Brown County deputy’s vehicle.
Not long after, a Village of Rosendale officer spotted that same car heading south on STH 26 and followed it until a Fond du Lac deputy tried to pull it over. Officers set up a high‑risk stop and the vehicle briefly pulled over, then suddenly took off again at a high rate of speed.
A Fond du Lac police officer deployed a tire‑deflation device; both driver‑side tires went flat, but the car kept going onto US‑151. It finally stopped near Oak Center Road, where deputies arrested the driver and passenger without any struggle…