A motorcyclist who fled from a deputy earlier this year at speeds topping 100 miles per hour has been arrested at a Summerfield Walmart on an outstanding warrant.
Patrick Dale Ortwein, 38, of Summerfield, was taken into custody at 11:54 p.m. Wednesday at the Walmart located at 17961 S. U.S. Hwy. 441. He was arrested on a Marion County warrant charging him with felony fleeing to elude a police officer and knowingly driving with a suspended license.
The charges stem from a June 22 incident. At approximately 5:38 p.m., a Marion County sheriff’s deputy was responding to an unrelated call near the intersection of Southeast Highway 42 and Southeast 97th Terrace Road when he spotted Ortwein operating a blue and white motorcycle…