Hospital Patient Steals Car, Leads Bemidji Police On Chase

By WCCO Staff, CBS Minnesota

September 29, 2023

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- A driver in a stolen Smart car led northern Minnesota police on a chase that ended in a crash Thursday morning.

According to the Bemidji Police Department, officers responded to a report of a stolen red 2009 Smart car from the Sanford Bemidji Medical Center shortly after 10 a.m.

Police located the car on 30th Street Northwest near the north side of Walmart and attempted to stop it. The driver allegedly sped away, traveling west on Highway 2 before making a U-turn at Beltrami County Road 9 and continuing in the opposite direction at a high rate of speed.

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