June trial scheduled in Dunn County for one high-speed chase suspect from Missouri
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by LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — A June trial has been scheduled in Dunn County for one of the suspects from Missouri allegedly involved in a burglary in Menomonie and a high-speed chase with law enforcement last September.
Miltiano T. Johnson, age 42 , appeared with his attorney, Michelle M. Erdman, before Judge James Peterson March 17 in Dunn County Circuit Court for a status conference.
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.
Erdman told the court no plea agreement has been reached and the case should be set for trial, according to online court records.
A jury trial has been scheduled for September and a final pre-trial hearing is scheduled for August 22.
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, 2022. The alarm company had reported being able to see 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 second suspect, Anthony M. Jordan, age 32, 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.
Another court hearing is scheduled for Jordan in Dunn County April 18.
Johnson and Jordan also are both charged with one felony count of burglary to a building, felony retail theft and misdemeanor criminal damage to property in Eau Claire County.
Jordan is scheduled for a plea hearing in Eau Claire County March 29.
Johnson is scheduled for a motion hearing in Eau Claire County May 3.
