Man Leads Police On Chase Through Woman's Yard
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (WCCO) -- A 24-year-old man is in jail after taking police on a dangerous high-speed chase, just after midnight Monday.
Police finally stopped him when they set up a perimeter near the St. Cloud Country Club.
Candace Sweeney came outside Tuesday morning and noticed tire tracks in the yard, but that wasn't the most interesting thing she saw. It was where those tracks went that has her absolutely baffled.
"So then I came out and looked and I said, 'oh my God, it came in here,' they realized it was a cul-de-sac and then I looked and said, 'oh my God, they came right up the driveway and through a tree,'" she said.
Anthony Storstad's Ford Taurus apparently clipped Sweeney's home and somehow made it through a tree and around a retaining wall, hitting some bricks along the way.
Police stopped pursuing and set up a perimeter at the St. Cloud Country Club to get Storstad to stop. He and three other passengers tried to flee on foot but were caught. Storstad's license had been revoked and there was a felony warrant out for his arrest.
"Put that all together, there's a reason he didn't want to get stopped by law enforcement but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Sgt. Marty Sayre, of the St. Cloud Police.
Apparently, so were a lot of front yards and back lawns during the path of his destruction. Police say Storstad even drove on the golf course for a minute but didn't do any damage.
For Sweeney, the whole thing is pretty amazing, pretty dangerous and pretty lucky that no one was hurt.
"I don't know how lucky you could get in life to get through there, going that speed, it's beyond me," she said.
