Vehicle Pursuit with Armed Suspect Leads to Standoff - Town of Spring Brook

On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 the Dunn County Communications Center received an attempt to locate request from Altoona Police Department on a potentially suicidal subject that was possibly in the Menomonie area. A green alert had also been sent out in an attempt to locate the subject and vehicle.

Dunn County Deputies located the suspect car on STH 170 west of Colfax and stopped the subject to check his welfare at about 4:00 p.m. Shortly after making contact the subject he fled in this car while deputies were trying to evaluate him. Deputies pursued the subject with information that he may be armed with a handgun. The pursuit lead deputies through Colfax and Elk Mound into Eau Claire County when the pursuit was turned over to Eau Claire County deputies as primary units behind the vehicle. The suspect lead the pursuit back into Dunn County, south of Elk Mound. After several attempts to deploy tire deflation devises to get the subject stopped, a pursuit intervention technique was used to disable the vehicle.

Dunn and Eau Claire deputies negotiated with the subject for nearly an hour because he produced a knife and refused to get out of his vehicle. He eventually cooperated, gave up the knife and was taken into custody by deputies without force or injury to anyone at about 5:42 p.m. The suspect car and the Eau Claire County squad were both damaged from the pursuit intervention technique.

The suspect was transported by Dunn County deputies to a local hospital for evaluation.

Airplane Crash - Town of New Haven

On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 11:05 AM the Dunn County E-911 Center received a report of a Cirrus aircraft that had gone in the Township of Sand Creek.

Dunn County Deputies, Sand Creek Fire and Colfax Ambulance were dispatched to the area.

A short time later the pilot was reported to have arrived at the Sand Creek Fire Department. The pilot was the only occupant of the aircraft and was not injured.

The aircraft was located in a harvested cornfield southeast of 1450th Ave and Cty Rd I. The airplane struck an irrigator.

The pilot was from Duluth, MN. He was flying from Cumberland, WI to Akron, OH when the aircraft experienced mechanical issues. An airframe parachute was deployed and the aircraft went down in the field.

An investigator from the FAA was responding to the scene to further investigate the incident.

Sheriff Dennis Smith

Fatal Farm Accident - Town of Spring Brook

On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 8:31 AM the Dunn County E-911 Center received a report of a tire that had blown while it was being worked on and an adult male had sustained head trauma.

Eau Claire Ambulance and Dunn County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the scene in the 9600 block of Cty Rd E in Spring Brook Township.

The adult male had sustained trauma to the head and was pronounced dead on scene. No one else was injured.

Based on the investigation it was learned that a tire had been changed on a wheel from a wagon used to haul silage.

While the tire was being inflated, the tire depressurized and the escaping air launched the tire and rim into the adult male who was working on the tire.

The Dunn County Medical Examiner’s Office assisted on scene.

The incident remains under investigation.

The name of the deceased is not being released pending notification of family members.