early one morning in March 2023 a Wisconsin state trooper pursued a vehicle on I90 that had been stopped earlier that same night after the driver was seen speeding and driving with a suspended license after several miles the vehicle came to a stop on the interstate near Sparta Wisconsin and a high-risk traffic stop was conducted as Monroe County Sheriff deputies responded to assist the 29-year-old female driver called 911 claiming police were trying to steal her car given the circumstances and her car being stopped in the middle of I90 deputies decided to shut down the entire westbound
Lanes of traffic dispatch then repeatedly transferred the woman's calls to a deputy on scene who was trying to convince her to exit the vehicle okay hey Deputy Heckman again I'm here I'm walking up right now hey look out look Hey Hey listen Okay no Okay nope I got you I'm here okay I'm going to shine my flashlight three times in your mirror okay can you see that hey can you see that can you guys move back all right they're moving back okay Hey listen look at that reflector to your left see my flashlight I'm clicking
it once twice three times okay I'm standing here behind you okay I'm the only one you're going to talk to but I need you to step out okay I know so what I need you to do though listen you called 911 right multiple times and you were put through you were yep you were put through to me I'm standing behind your car can you do me a favor I I'll make a compromise with you can you open your window you don't have to get out of your car yet open your driver's window and look back
at me nope it's just me standing here no one else is even around me look I'm right here see my flashlight you told me that there's no weapons in the car okay and I want to believe you and I understand that but I I'm here I came all the way from Toma to talk to you okay I need you to put your driver's window down and I need you to just look back at me you don't have to look back very far they're not going to shoot you I promise see my flashlight you can hear
my voice right everyone 's dressed like this it doesn't matter what we're dressed like I and I told you to look back at me I'm standing right here and you won't look back at me okay put your hands out the window okay I'm walking up okay keep your hands out hey keep your hands out hi I'm Deputy Heckman I was talk I was talking to you on the phone I'm still on the phone with you while speaking with her it was discovered that two children were also inside the vehicle who can we call who can
we call to pick up the babies I don't know who that is like she starts complying and then yeah she said her kids puke it in the car and it looks like the but I don't know how old 11 and8 I don't know if she's on something or if she's just paranoid but she said she got robbed and she thinks it's the same people behind her that robbed her as soon as they told her to turn around she was like nope not back in the car she stuck her hands out the window and I mean
not that there couldn't be something in there but she's not letting this go down with her kids here so she wants to get them picked up but she doesn't have any service on her phone I don't know what her deal is I know that there was like a little bit of like MDMA or something in the car the last time I dealt with her if we can do anything besides assault the vehicle we can't sit here all day and wait for that to happen shut buy she's kind of all over the the car she's had
been out of the car at one point and she just she's like I'm not getting out of the car until I it's Monro County behind me so she's all about seeing who she's talking to and I tried to go up there so she could see me y I just want to let you know this I just want to talk you okay is get some kids in the and why keep youing the kids as safe as possible okay I need you to cooperate with us what here my name is s Le and I'm here from the
SP Police Department okay here step out of the vehicle so we can talk okay I see your hand I don't want anybody get hurt I don't want you get hurt I feel probably scared right now I I need to be able to talk to you face to face okay I just sat here like I said I got K of my own I would never put my own kit in danger I'm telling you that I'm not part of whoever St the PO okay they can't continue you can't get State shut down I mean is it worth
just getting on the PA and saying listen if you don't come out now we're going to take you out of the car I would advise that that's going to happen so I would just tell cuz I don't think we're going to get any if we're going to go up there at all we're going going to just take her in let you know okay this is your last chance to come out and talk to us face to face okay and okay after spending almost an hour trying to persuade her to exit the vehicle deputies devised a
plan to approach and remove her ready hey where do you guys want we these sure we're in the spot sorry sticking out like light now while some deputies work to distract her from the driver's side others approach from the passenger side and place spike strips in the front of the tires to prevent another escape attempt all right I'll put the spikes open it open the door open the door we're going to break the window open the door we're going to break the window open the door or I'm going to break the window okay who are
you though cuz I'm deputy Hackman I was on the phone with you I need you to step out of the car right now step out of the car right now step out of the car right now ma'am you are under arrest step out of I'm going to break the window I can break it in her face I don't care taser when she began rolling up the window again deputies broke the window and deployed a taser as she actively resisted the two children were quickly and safely removed from the vehicle at the same time get out
of the vehicle now you're going to get tased again put your hands behind your back now right got it got it got [Applause] it all right man' Rel relax relax are you hitting that again no oh stop resisting all right hey we got to get you on your side we got to get you on your side let TR roll her over struggling qu struggling roll roll on your left side car location I'm Sor I can't breathe you guys relax relax no I'm serious relax relax relax we're going to get you on your feet in a
second relax stop grabbing for the key I'm going to puke I'm going to puke then puke [Applause] okay all right roll over roll over tuck your legs up tuck your legs up we're going to stand up we're going to stand you up all right all right all right can you stand up stand up I can't you guys Tas me too hard I need an ambulance we got one coming we got one coming okay okay can we stand you up okay relax relax all [Music] right okay can we stand you up to get a look at
you I can't bre we want to see what all's what all's not okay okay what do you mean I see if you're hurt or anything we want to know what's going on with you yes are you serious I have it all documented okay can we stand you up I will give it to you guys if that's what you want man I'll give you the phone I promise I'm not sure what you're talking about there I want to see if you're hurt right now though can we stand you up I need to go to the doctor
because ambulance is coming what do what do you want to see a doctor for no I'm so can I help you right here okay where can you guys get lifted up and show him okay I did hit you with a taser I want to see where them probes are paining no we got one one in the arm you got one in the arm left arm okay and what's can we just pull the wire so we're not getting all where's the other one at can we stand up on there it is try your feet on the
glass yeah there's broken glass all over so try not to move around oh well he smashed it on it's okay it's okay it's okay scared where's that other probe it's on the ground I know got all right we're walk it out to my cruiser all right let's go over over here away from the glass away from the glass they're not hurt at all right okay they just mom huh they just want mom can you guys calm down did they verify it all if Grandma was on the way I I didn't ask it but okay okay
they're they're over with the other officers they're okay but they need be they're working out they're working on it Jason can you give your hand with that I can't walk man my my you guys please get them warm everywhere watch your head watch your head we got an ambulance coming to check you out okay the only reason I asked you that cuz her face was like I was afraid I was going to smoke right no I know she is my cruiser and actually want you stand with her Le bu my cruiser just until ambulance gets
here yeah I'm Deputy young with the sheriff's office I just had a bit of information I wanted to grab from you if that's okay okay the ambulance is just pulling up we're going to have them take a look at you just so I can let them know you said you needed to see a doctor what for get in touch with whoever you have to we are good to open up the inside Lane only we get have a squad position a little ways back just to get stuff moved over 10 for send one unit position at
the top of the hill behind us we're still partially occupying the outside Lane where's the kids at in the back of Nikki squ okay about my assist they're not going to human Serv what am I being arrested for well I guess I'll have to talk with the trooper he's the one handling this whole situation who is the trooper's back here one actually he's up oh he no he's right there oh I'm like please don't tell me it's one for sure I can probably say felony eluding what for Fleet I did not elude anybody that was
a fake officer clearly he tried to get my cards I have it on camera hosman okay this isn't hosman but he tried to pull you over actually guess what one of my friends was in the back of that police car so that's how I know okay well let's finish getting you checked out here my kids wouldn't be so scared and I wouldn't be so scared here while you're talking alluding did you see uh she had a camer pepper spray armed and ready to go D I can't there's pills all over in that car iar it
they said it SM like weed I didn't smell yeah out here so like nose is running and can't see my fingers like looing and I'm going have hold on that until I'm going talk to my duty Sergeant see if I can search the car today after I Dro her off the jail okay um I would also probably throw in something like it's going to be the woman was subsequently transported to the jail where the trooper conducted an OWI investigation and administered field sobriety tests as a result the 29-year-old woman was charged with felony counts of
first and second degree recklessly endangering safety resisting an officer causing injury vehicle fleeing alluding an officer misdemeanor counts of neglecting a childtimes two operating while intoxicated with a passenger less than 16 years old operating with a restricted controlled substance resisting obstructing an officer and bail jumping she was issued over $2,100 in traffic citations and released a few days later on a $2,000 cash Bond however the bond was later increased to $5,000 months later as she missed several Court appearances as of August 2024 the woman was found guilty after entering a no contest plead to two
felony charges and one misdemeanor charge all other charges were dismissed but considered in the case ultimately she was sentenced to 52 days in jail and 3 years of probation [Music]
