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A drone helped authorities track down and arrest a wanted Racine man who fled police on Interstate 90/94 near Tomah on Tuesday afternoon, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The Wisconsin State Patrol attempted to stop a vehicle on westbound I-90/94 in Juneau County for an unspecified reason at about 1 p.m., but the vehicle fled at high speed and the State Patrol ended the pursuit for safety reasons. The sheriff’s office and state troopers located the vehicle in Monroe County, and it fled again, eventually driving into a ditch of I-94 between Highway ET and Industrial Avenue, Monroe County Sheriff Wesley D. Revels said in a statement.
The driver, Demetrius L. Johnson, 39, of Racine, fled on foot into a wooded area west of I-94. Johnson was wanted by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and was “noted to have violent tendencies,” Revels said.
At about 5:30 p.m., a Sheriff’s Office sergeant saw Johnson walking on Highway ET at the east city limits of Tomah and he fled north on a snowmobile trail.
More law enforcement responded and set up a perimeter before continuing the search. At about 8:30 p.m., Johnson was located by a drone team from the Fort McCoy Fire Department, apprehended by a police dog and arrested by the sheriff’s office.
Johnson was medically treated at the scene before being taken to the Monroe County Jail by the Wisconsin State Patrol.
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