Suspect in high-speed chase pleads “not guilty” in Eau Claire County burglary
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
EAU CLAIRE — One of the suspects from Missouri allegedly involved in a burglary in Menomonie and a high-speed chase has pleaded not guilty on burglary charges in Eau Claire County.
Anthony M. Jordan, age 32, appeared by video from the Dunn County jail in Eau Claire County Circuit Court on November 7 before Judge Michael A. Schumacher for an arraignment hearing.
Jordan is charged in Eau Claire County with one felony burglary to a building and felony retail theft and one misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property.
The charge of criminal damage to property and felony retail theft both have a modifier as a party to a crime.
Jordan is scheduled for another court hearing in Eau Claire County on December 16.
Miltiano Johnson also was scheduled for an arraignment hearing in Eau Claire County November 7, but according to online court records, a video conference had not been set up with Dunn County, so the hearing was rescheduled to December 1.
Johnson is charged in Eau Claire County with two felony counts of burglary to a building and felony retail theft greater than $10,000 and one misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property. The charge of burglary and felony retail theft included the modifiers of as a party to a crime.
In Dunn County, bail was set at $20,000 cash for Johnson and at $10,000 cash for Jordan September 30.
In Eau Claire County, bail was set at $25,000 cash for both Johnson and Jordan on October 3.
Jordan is scheduled for a jury trial in Dunn County in December.
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, according to the criminal complaint.
The loss in property for T-Mobile was later determined to be nearly $12,000, not including property damage, the complaint states.
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.
