High-Speed Chase With Escaped Prisoner In Kenosha County Captured On Video

KENOSHA COUNTY — Kenosha County authorities released footage of a high-speed weekend chase that resulted in the capture of a prisoner who escaped from Chicago’s northern suburbs. The escapee, who faces several charges, also killed his own dog in 2019 in Fox Lake, according to reports.

Wesley R. Anderson was being moved to the Lake County jail around 2:30 p.m. Saturday when he started acting erratically and escaped a Park Ridge squad car on Interstate 294 in Northbrook, police said.

He resisted a Taser, ran across lanes of traffic, and jumped a concrete barrier to carjack an interstate driver, before carjacking a separate vehicle at an intersection near I-294, according to police.

The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department was alerted shortly before 4 p.m. that the second vehicle Anderson stole was in Wisconsin, the agency said.

The dashboard camera recording starts on a two-lane country road and follows the stolen car as it speeds around police vehicles, veers into the opposite lane, and navigates around vehicles traveling in the direction of traffic. The runaway car eventually enters the Interstate 94 ramp at Highway 165, where its hazards activate and it slowly stops.

OnStar located and shut down the stolen vehicle, and Anderson was taken into custody in a collaborative effort by the Pleasant Prairie police, state authorities and the sheriff’s department, law enforcement said.

After being brought to a hospital for medical clearance, Anderson was recorded attempting to use a garbage can as a toilet and shoving, fighting and kicking police when they tried to intervene, video released by the sheriff’s department shows.

Anderson is charged with first-degree reckless endangering, battering an officer, attempting to disarm an officer, fleeing an officer, driving a vehicle without consent, and multiple outstanding felony warrants, police said.

He was also arrested and charged in 2019 after fatally shooting his Doberman Pinscher in the head in the basement of a Fox Lake home, according to media reports from the time. Anderson was found guilty of violating the duties of an animal owner and possessing a knife with intent, court records show.