FOND DU LAC – Police arrested a 60-year-old Milwaukee man Tuesday after a chase on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County.
Officers responded around 8:30 p.m. to a report that a man took cash from a register at the Fond du Lac Walmart and drove away, according to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials said officers found the vehicle in the area and tried to stop it, but it continued south on Rolling Meadows Drive at high speeds. Fond du Lac police ended the chase, but the Wisconsin State Patrol and Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office deputies found the vehicle again and tried to stop it on I-41 near Lost Arrow Road.
The Chinook touched down, conjuring a cloud of swirling sand and dust around it. U.S. Army Lieutenant Nate Bethea ran from its rear bay with his head down and immediately took cover flat against the ground as small arms fire popped from the village around him. It was July 2009, and Bethea was part of an airborne unit searching for Private Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who had walked off an outpost in Afghanistan and been captured by Taliban insurgents.
Bethea was leading a group of soldiers in a war a long way from home. Joining his unit for the rescue mission, and lying prone next to him, was an Air Force joint tactical air controller (commonly referred to as a JTAC). The helicopter lifted off, and once they realized the gunfire wasn’t aimed at them, Bethea and the JTAC moved off the high ground to avoid being silhouetted targets for the enemy.