Man Charged: Drove 110 MPH In Franklin Police Chase, Complaint Says

FRANKLIN, WI — A 19-year-old from Milwaukee was charged Monday in connection with the July 28 police pursuit that led officers for 18 miles through several communities surrounding Franklin, according to a criminal complaint.

It started early that morning when an officer from Franklin tried to pull over a Jeep with a defective tail lamp in Oak Creek, according to a criminal complaint. It turned into a chase, which ended with an arrest and police finding a 48-round drum magazine for a pistol plus a gun, the criminal complaint said.

Monterrian Jacarr Santarelli-Wilson is facing charges of fleeing or eluding an officer, second-degree recklessly endangering safety, carrying a concealed weapon, and obstructing an officer, online Milwaukee County Court records showed. If convicted of the recklessly endangering safety charge alone, Santarelli-Wilson could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

The Franklin officer tried pulling the car over near Drexel Avenue and 27th Street, the complaint said. But the car did not stop, and police said the driver sped onto the southbound lanes of Interstate 43 from Rawson Avenue, according to the complaint.

The officer followed the car onto the interstate with lights and sirens and the driver reached speeds of over 110 mph, police said in the complaint. The Jeep ventured into Racine County, at certain points ignoring traffic signals and at one point turning its lights off, and eventually got back onto the interstate headed north, according to the complaint. As the Jeep continued on the highway, police said the driver was acting recklessly, endangering other drivers and police officers.

A Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputy placed spike strips at the Rawson Avenue exit, but the driver dodged them at about 75 mph and continued back onto the highway until he got off on West College Avenue at about 100 miles per hour, according to police in the complaint. The Jeep eventually turned north onto 27th Street from College Avenue, the complaint said.

Greenfield police managed to use stop sticks on the Jeep near 27th Street and Mangold Avenue, making the car lose both front tires, but the driver persisted in driving away at high speeds until he reached the Kohl's parking lot in the 3700 block of 27th Street, according to the complaint.

The car drove up a grass embankment and entered the Southgate Square apartment complex in that same block until he got out of the car when it was still moving, according to the complaint.

Police said they saw the man clenching something in front of his body as he ran east toward 27th Street, and an officer chasing the man saw a loaded pistol magazine drop to the ground, the complaint said. The man ran into brush nearby where police used a stun-gun device on him in the upper thigh and arrested him, according to the complaint.

Police said they found a gun in the path of where the man ran away, while the 48-round magazine was found in his car, according to the complaint.