Eagan Police Arrest Robbery Suspect After High Speed Chase

A Minneapolis man is in Dakota County Jail waiting to be charged after he allegedly robbed an Eagan gas station store and fled the scene—and police—in a stolen van. He was stopped and arrested in Apple Valley, police say.

arrested Jermaine Savory, 32, in Apple Valley on Sunday evening for alleged robbery, fleeing in a motor vehicle and possession of stolen property, according to a press release from the Eagan Police Department.

The Dakota County Attorney's office is determining appropriate charges, the release said.

According to the release, police were called to the  on Pilot Knob Road in Eagan at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday on a report of robbery.

A store clerk told police that a man had come into the store and started yelling, then allegedly jumped over the counter and told an employee to open the cash register drawer, the release said, which the employee did.

The man allegedly took an unknown amount of money and drove away in a silver van, the clerk told police. Employees wrote down the van's license plate, and police determined the vehicle had been stolen in Lakeville about 20 minutes earlier, the release said.

The man, allegedly Savory, didn't stop when an Eagan police officer tried to initiate a traffic stop, and then led police on a 100-mile-per-hour chase through Burnsville and Apple Valley, the release said.

The van eventually was stopped when "stop sticks" police put out across Cedar Avenue near 143rd Street West in Apple Valley caused a tire to deflate, the release said.

The man ran away from the scene, but police found and arrested him a short time later, the release said.