Fourteen-Year-Old Charged After Stealing Coon Rapids Police Vehicle And Leading Authorities On High-Speed Chase
Coon Rapids Police Chief, Andy Klein, says a 14-year-old female was involved in the theft of one of their police vehicles Sunday that resulted in a multi-county high-speed chase. Klein says Officer Paul Whitenack was assisting a juvenile female who had walked a way from a relative’s home. The officer was driving the suspect back to the residence and had gone to the door to talk with the relatives when the girl took off in the cruiser. The Iowa State Patrol, Greene and Guthrie County Sheriff’s Offices and the Perry Police Department were involved in the chase that ended when stop sticks we...