MADISON, Wis. — Jurors deliberated for roughly seven hours on Thursday in the trial of Christopher Brugger, returning to the courtroom just before midnight to find him guilty of crashing a tow truck into a Madison police officer’s squad car at the end of a chase.
Brugger, 37, faced 17 charges stemming from the chase and crash including three counts of fleeing an officer resulting in bodily harm or property damage, one count of hit-and-run involving great bodily harm and one county of reckless driving causing great bodily harm.
A felony charge of driving a commercial vehicle without consent was dismissed before the trial began on a motion from the prosecution, but jurors still found Brugger guilty of 13 of the remaining charges. He was acquitted of second-degree recklessly endangering safety, possession of methamphetamine and one of the two counts of resisting or obstructing an officer that he faced…