Crime & Safety

Two Men Try To Flee Plymouth Police

A Plymouth man and Wayzata man drive the wrong way down a road, get caught and attempt to flee police, but get arrested, according to Plymouth Police reports.

You can’t outrun the law or at least two men fleeing police couldn’t do so March 3.

According to a Plymouth Police report, at 2:15 a.m. officers observed a vehicle traveling the wrong way in the roadway at County Roads 6 and 101. The vehicle fled when the officer activated the cop car’s emergency lights.

The suspect vehicle was located unattended in a driveway on the 1800 block of Troy Lane North. A K-9 unit led officers to a residence where the driver and first arrested part was arrested for fleeing police and a DWI. The passenger of the vehicle was cited for fleeing police in manner other than in a motor vehicle. A 20-year-old Plymouth man and 21-year-old Wayzata man were arrested.

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The police department’s report from Feb. 23 through March 7 tallied 81 incidents, including:

 

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• Six assaults

• Four domestic assaults

• One residential burglary, $9,000 valued vehicle stolen from underground garage

• Twelve controlled substances found

• Six criminal damages to property

• Five DOCs reported

• Three DWIs

• One report of fleeing a police officer

• Three reports of fraud

• Five reports of harassment

• Four hit and runs

• Two violation orders reported

• One tampering with a motor vehicle incident

• One report of terroristic threats, the victim reported receiving threatening voicemail messages

• One robbery at a

• One underage liquor incident involving one arrest

• Two reports of prostitution

• Twenty thefts, the most expensive of which was $3,000 worth of items stolen out of vehicle with a smashed window in a parking lot that included a computer and other items

• Two thefts from vehicles

• One weapons offense reported where an officer had stopped a vehicle for a seatbelt violation, but saw marijuana in the vehicle and conducted a search, which yielded the discovery of a firearm.

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