REGINA – Charges that include assaulting a peace officer have been laid after a fleeing driver sped across fields, ploughed through a fence and eventually ran for about a kilometre to avoid capture by the RCMP.
Mounties say they got word Sunday afternoon about erratic driving and an assault involving a man and a woman on Highway 35 south of Weyburn.
They came across a suspect vehicle that was driven into a field and slammed through a fence, forcing police to halt their chase for safety reasons.
The Cadillac Escalade was later spotted near Lake Alma, Sask., but the male driver again evaded officers by steering onto private pastureland.
The driver was trying to change a tire in a field when police caught up to him, but he ran away before a Taser stun gun was deployed to help make an arrest.
Isaak Neufeld Boldt, a 34-year-old resident of Beaubier, Sask., was to appear in a Weyburn courtroom Tuesday on 16 charges.
RCMP said at one point, U.S. authorities were alerted because the chase was close to the border.
They also said the woman involved in the alleged assault was found safe at a home in Beaubier.
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