A burglary Sunday at a Stockbridge-Munsee police officer’s home and subsequent chase in a stolen car led to multiple felony charges Tuesday against a Keshena teenager.
Lamont Franklin, 17, is accused of breaking into the Red Springs home of Officer Clint Gorley around 4:30 p.m. and attempting to steal numerous household items and electronics, according to the criminal complaint.
Franklin allegedly took a pickup truck from a nearby residence when he fled the home, according to the complaint.
Authorities spotted the vehicle a short time later at the Gresham Town Mart and attempted an arrest, but Franklin sped off in the vehicle, according to the complaint.
Franklin allegedly struck two patrol vehicles attempting to stop him during the roughly 1½-mile chase that ensued before abandoning the truck and fleeing on foot into a cornfield.
Authorities tracked his footprints through the snow. Another report came in of a man who had been on someone’s porch in the vicinity and then jumped off and fled.
Franklin was taken into custody shortly after 6 p.m.
Franklin was charged Tuesday with five felony counts, including burglary, criminal damage to property, fleeing an officer in a vehicle, first degree reckless endangerment and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent.
He could face a maximum 12½ years in prison and $25,000 fine on each of the most serious counts of burglary and reckless endangerment if convicted.
He is also charged with misdemeanor counts of theft, hit-and-run, resisting an officer and disorderly conduct.
Franklin was ordered held on a $25,000 cash bond after an initial appearance in Shawano-Menominee County Circuit Court Tuesday before Judge William Kussel Jr.
He is scheduled for an adjourned initial appearance Monday.
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