Two suspects in high-speed chase in Dunn County bound over for trial in Eau Claire County
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — Two of the suspects from Missouri allegedly involved in a burglary in Menomonie and a high-speed chase in Dunn County have been bound over trial on burglary charges in Eau Claire County.
Miltiano T. Johnson, age 42, and Anthony M. Jordan, age 32, appeared in Eau Claire County Circuit Court for preliminary hearings on October 18.
Johnson and Jordan are both charged with one felony count of burglary to a building in Eau Claire County.
Following the preliminary hearing, Judge Michael A. Schumacher found probable cause and scheduled the two defendants for an arraignment hearing November 7.
A cash bail of $25,000 for Johnson was set in Eau Claire County Circuit Court October 3, and Johnson was ordered to have no contact with co-defendant Jordan or with “Mac Man” as a condition of bail.
Additional conditions of bail are that Johnson is to have no violent or abusive contact or no acts or threats of violence toward anyone.
Bail also was set at $25,000 cash for Jordan with the same conditions of bail as were set for co-defendant Johnson.
At a hearing in Dunn County Circuit Court October 19, Judge James Peterson scheduled a two-day jury trial for Jordan in December.
A status conference is scheduled in Dunn County Circuit Court for Jordan on November 11.
Jordan is charged in Dunn County with one felony count of burglary as a party to a crime and two misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property as a party to a crime and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Johnson is charged in Dunn County with two felony counts of a burglary as a party to a crime and a vehicle operator fleeing police, and two misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property as a party to a crime and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Judge Peterson set bail at $20,000 cash for Johnson and at $10,000 cash for Jordan September 30.
Johnson is scheduled for a status conference in Dunn County Circuit Court October 25.
An officer with the Menomonie Police Department was dispatched to an alarm at T-Mobile on North Broadway in Menomonie at around 1:30 a.m. September 29. The alarm company had reported being able to see a glass break on the cameras, according to the criminal complaint.
A Dunn County deputy responded to the scene of the T-Mobile burglary and began checking areas east of Menomonie to see if any other businesses may have been hit along the Interstate.
The deputy was scanning the Eau Claire Police Department channel and heard that a similar incident had occurred shortly before the call in Menomonie, that iPads had been stolen in a “smash and grab,” and that the suspect vehicle was described as a newer white Mercedes, the complaint states.
In his report, which is included in the complaint, the deputy writes, “At about the same time of receiving the suspect vehicle information, I was on I-94 entering the crossover at mile post 56 near the Dunn and Eau Claire County line. At that time, I observed a matching vehicle pass by traveling westbound on I-94. I pulled out and began to follow the vehicle.”
The suspect vehicle reached speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, but the vehicle began to lose a tire after driving over “stop sticks” set up by sheriff’s department deputies.
After the vehicle stopped, three people fled on foot.
All of the men ran northbound into a wooded area where Johnson and Jordan were later located and taken into custody, according to the complaint.
The third suspect has not yet been found.
