Austin police officers were able to stop the subject of a high-speed chase that originated in Albert Lea over the weekend.

Tuesday, May 02, 2000

Austin police officers were able to stop the subject of a high-speed chase that originated in Albert Lea over the weekend.

Andreas Karl Schoene, 26 of Golden Valley, was taken into custody at about 7 p.m. Saturday after the car he was driving overturned on the westbound ramp of Interstate 90 at the Highway 56 intersection.

Albert Lea police officers and Freeborn County Sheriff’s Department deputies pursued Schoene in a 1999 silver-colored Dodge Neon after clerks at Mister Tint in Albert Lea reported he was acting nervous and threateningly.

Schoene sped away from the store when officers arrived and ignored their lights and sirens to stop.

Schoene’s vehicle entered I-90 at Albert Lea and proceeded eastbound at speeds in excess of 110 mph.

Austin police officers had been alerted to expect the vehicle and when they spotted it, they positioned two sets of "stop sticks" in the eastbound lanes of I-90.

The vehicle went thorough one set and then another and suffered three flat tires. However, the driver kept pushing the vehicle to speeds in excess of 80 mph.

Then, as it neared the Highway 56 intersection, the driver crossed the median and drove up the westbound ramp, where it overturned in a ditch.

The driver refused officers’ commands to exit the vehicle peacefully and officers drew their weapons and forced him to surrender at gunpoint.

Schoene still struggled with officers before he was handcuffed and put in a squad car and transported to the Freeborn County Jail in Albert Lea.

Schoene, who was alone in the vehicle, gave investigators two different names before being correctly identified.

He faces charges including fleeing police officers, driving after revocation and theft of a motor vehicle.

Cash taken from wallet

The victim of a theft recovered some of the items stolen, but not $3,000 in cash.

The victim, a man, told an Austin police investigator that a woman offered to perform sex with him for $100.

The man and woman went to a room at the Downtown Motel, had sex and afterward, the man showered. He told police that when he stepped out of the shower, the woman was gone as well as his billfold containing identification, including his Immigration and Naturalization Service green card and $3,000 cash.

Police went to the proprietor of the motel, who told them four women were staying at a room with a man from Milwaukee, Wis.

The incident was reported at 2:48 a.m. Sunday, according to the police report.

The occupants of the room told officers a woman identified only as "Stacy" told them "she had hit this guy for a lot of money and was leaving town."

Police later went to the Brown Derby, where eyewitnesses told the officers the woman identified as "Stacy" was seen getting into a pickup truck with a man. The couple drove away and weren’t seen again early Sunday morning.

Later, the proprietor of the Downtown Motel conducted a search around the premises and discovered personal identification and other items that the victim of the robbery identified as his, but not the $3,000.