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By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostTwo have been taken into custody after a pursuit begun in Andrew County ended with an on-foot manhunt in St. Joseph.Andrew County Sheriff Grant Gillett says one of his deputies approached a vehicle suspected of being stolen, parked on County Road 287, near the intersection with County Road 288 around 3:40 this morning. The car sped off and Andrew County gave pursuit.The vehicle drove southbound on US Route 169 and ran over spike strips laid down by a deputy, blowing out the passenger-side tires. Still, the vehicle kept going, this time driving the wrong way on I-29. Gillett says he called off the pursuit at that time, but reengaged with Buchanan County deputies and St. Joseph police once the vehicle hit the intersection of I-29 and Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph.The two ditched the car behind the Drury Hotel and took off on foot, literally, running out of their shoes, barefoot. Officers took a 27-year-old woman into custody. The man escaped, only to the ca

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