12-28-2004, 08:55 AM
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Just an update to the story:
From: http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/dec04/287495.asp
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Felony Charges Filed in Fatal Police Chase
Posted: Dec. 26, 2004
Two felony charges were filed Sunday accusing a 24-year-old Random Lake woman of leading police on a wild car chase in Milwaukee, Washington and Ozaukee counties that ended in a crash that killed an 80-year-old Whitefish Bay man.
Lara M. Strack was charged with second-degree reckless homicide and with fleeing the scene of a crime in the wreck in Glendale that killed Benjamin Fagan. Strack was scheduled to make her initial appearance in a Milwaukee County court today.
Fagan was struck in the Buick he was driving Wednesday at N. Port Washington Road and Hampton Ave. after Strack bolted through a red light, authorities say. The combined charges against Strack could net her more than 28 years' imprisonment and more than $110,000 in fines.
The complaint describes a pursuit at speeds exceeding 100 mph that wended its way in and out of traffic, and the various attempts by police along the way to slow or stop Strack, who came under scrutiny after an attempt to pass a forged check at the Grafton State Bank in Saukville.
At one point in the chase, according to the complaint, a Glendale police officer had to jump over a guardrail to avoid being struck on I-43 as he was placing "stop sticks," one of which punctured and deflated the tire of the Hyundai Santa Fe driven by Strack. After the chase, heads of the various police agencies involved said they were reviewing their procedures on pursuing suspects traveling at dangerously high rates of speed.
According to the complaint, Strack spoke to police after being treated at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital. She reported feeling dizzy during the pursuit and said she fled in the first place because she "did not want to go back to jail," the complaint says.
Strack also is charged in Sheboygan County with two felony counts of forgery and one of false representation.
A warrant was issued for her arrest earlier this month after she failed to appear in court in connection with those charges. Strack is charged with withdrawing $6,875 from a savings account of a Random Lake church between Sept. 30 and Oct. 15 using letters she signed with the name of her mother, the church's treasurer.
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