ing three felony charges in St. Croix County Circuit Court: Second degree recklessly endangering safety, attempting to flee or elude an officer and escape. If convicted, Kadinger faces up to $25,000 in fines and up to 10 years in prison.

According to the complaint: At 10:06 p.m. May 4, St. Croix Sheriff’s Office received a wanted person report from Dunn County. A Crime Stoppers’ tip had indicated that Kadinger, who had several St. Croix, Dunn and Buffalo County warrants for his arrest, had been staying with a couple in a storage unit next to a daycare in Baldwin. The tip also said Kadinger had been driving a black Ford Focus with stolen plates, going between the Baldwin storage unit and friends’ places in Elmwood.

The arrest warrants were for failure to appear, nine counts of felony bail jumping, four counts of misdemeanor bail jumping, battery, theft and disorderly conduct in St. Croix; felony possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine and failure to appear in Buffalo County; and felony meth possession with intent to deliver, resisting arrest, drug paraphernalia possession, felony and misdemeanor bail jumping, battery, disorderly conduct, THC possession and electronic weapon possession in Dunn County.

After reviewing the tip, an SCSO deputy met a Baldwin police officer in Jacobson Motors’ parking lot to coordinate approaching the storage unit. While meeting, they observed the Ford Focus with Kadinger at the wheel heading south on 11th Avenue.

Both officers pursued Kadinger, who blew through several stop signs while leading them on a winding chase through the town of Baldwin at speeds reaching 100 mph. No traffic was on the roads, the deputy noted in his report. Kadinger led the chase west on 60th Avenue, racing through intersections at 200th Street and County Road T.

Kadinger continued onto County Road J, crossed I-94 and headed south onto County Road W, sometimes crossing into the oncoming traffic lane. When he tried to navigate the 90-degree curve at County Road W and 150th Street, the vehicle went airborne and landed in the west ditch of 150th Street. When officers approached the car, the driver’s door hung open and the vehicle was still running, but Kadinger was gone. The license plate did not match the vehicle and had expired. The car wasn’t registered to Kadinger, either.

Responding officers set up a perimeter and K-9 teams arrived. The SCSO deputy found where Kadinger had been laying at the edge of a field driveway 10 yards north of his vehicle; he left his hat behind.

In the meantime, a caller reported a man trying to break into a vehicle nearby at 1489 Evergreen Drive, but he had fled. Two K-9 teams, a drone and officers from six agencies searched, but could not locate Kadinger. The search was called off at 3:24 a.m. May 5.

About five hours later at 8 a.m., a caller reported a suspicious man at 1455 Evergreen Drive in the town of Kinnickinnic, walking up the driveway. His description matched Kadinger. Officers responded, set up a perimeter and notified area residents.

At 9:30 a.m., a caller reported a suspicious man approaching a residence at 389 Pleasant Ave., but said he had left 15 minutes earlier. Not long after, a man was seen running east from that residence, across a field. An officer followed the man across a stream and plowed field before parking on the edge of a wooded area. Two officers, one with a K-9, caught Kadinger in the woods and arrested him.

EMS took Kadinger to River Falls Area Hospital, where he complained of pain and said he couldn’t move his arms, sit up or stand without help. His right arm was bandaged and placed in a sling before he was dressed in an orange St. Croix County jail uniform. Due to the sling and bandage, police didn’t handcuff or leg shackle Kadinger. He also acted like walking was difficult, so a registered nurse from the hospital and a deputy helped him outside.

While the officer was unlocking his squad, Kadinger took off around the back of the vehicle, showing no signs of injuries, heading eastbound across the helicopter landing pad toward a neighborhood.

A couple of minutes later, at 12:52 p.m., police saw Kadinger enter a wooded area east of Yellowstone Drive. The registered nurse had tailed Kadinger as well. The officer took a paved footpath up onto Glacier Avenue, parked on the far west end and ran through backyards to the top of the hill above where Kadinger had been spotted. There he found the discard jail uniform, sling and bandages. The nurse yelled that Kadinger was still heading east. In pursuit, the deputy tore his pant leg and cut his shin on a barbed wire fence. River