Man Charged After Leading Waukesha Police On 100 MPH Chase

WAUKESHA, WI — Officers from the Waukesha Police Department arrested a person on the east edge of the city early Monday morning, after that person led police on a 10-mile chase that reached speeds up to 100 mph.

Brandon Brown, 31, was charged on Monday with fleeing an officer in a car, recklessly endangering safety and resisting arrest, court records showed. Police arrested Brown at the BP gas station on 1610 Lincoln Avenue around 1:50 a.m., Waukesha police captain Dan Baumann told Patch.

The chase started near Meadowbrook Road and Summit Avenue, where officers saw a blue car speeding around 1:45 a.m. When police tried to pull the car over, it turned its lights off, did a u-turn over the median and fled, police logs showed.

The car went as fast as 100 mph while heading south on Meadowbrook Road, police logs showed. Police popped one of the car's tires with stop sticks on Highway 59 and E. Sunset Drive, and sped in the oncoming lane as it tried to evade police.

One of the squad cars tried twice to perform a PIT maneuver on the fleeing car, ramming it to cause the fleeing driver to lose control. The second attempt was successful near Lincoln Avenue, police logs showed. The car stopped, and the driver, who was the only person inside, got out and ran toward the Golden Corral near Arcadian Avenue, police said.

Police stopped the person outside the BP gas station near Lincoln Avenue, Baumann said. The person told police he swallowed an illegal substance.

According to police logs, the person appeared to swallow a substance that contained buprenorphine, a Schedule III narcotic under state law.