A high speed pursuit along Hwy 212 ended in one man being tazed and pepper sprayed, last Friday night.
The pursuit began around 10 PM, after Powder River County Sheriff’s Deputies attempted to pull over Jacob Dreyer of Portland, Oregon, for a suspended driver’s license. Dreyer had been pulled over earlier in the day in Broadus, when his suspended license was discovered, and had planned to stay at a motel until someone could drive his vehicle, according to Sheriff Allen Drane, Jr. Instead, Dreyer left town after dark, and was subsequently spotted and an attempt was made to pull him over.
Dreyer then reportedly took off at high speed driving a Toyota Tacoma, and deputies Rohrer and Stevenson, along with Sheriff Drane, engaged in pursuit. Rosebud County deputies laid out a spike strip in Ashland to slow down the driver, and the vehicle eventually went off the road into a ravine on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, losing a motorcycle out of the back of the vehicle in the process. BIA officers helped to arrest Dreyer; during the arrest he was tazed and pepper sprayed before he was subdued.
Dreyer is being held in the Powder River County jail on charges of driving with a suspended license, two counts of assault on a police officer, fleeing from or eluding a police officer, and resisting arrest.
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