Crime & Safety

Motorcyclist Who Sparked High Speed Chase Through Eagan, Apple Valley and Rosemount Faces Four Felony Charges

Christopher Alan Siemers, 30, was allegedly riding a stolen motorcycle when he drew police into a pursuit that ended only after he roared through a city park in Rosemount, evading capture for a short while.

A South St. Paul man remains in custody at the Dakota County Jail after running afoul of four different law enforcement agencies during an alleged crime spree on July 22. 

Christopher Alan Siemers, 30, is implicated in two separate incidents that occurred on that day: A high-speed chase through Eagan, Apple Valley and Rosemount and a burglary in Hampton Township later that afternoon.

On July 22, around 10 a.m. an officer with the Apple Valley Police Department heard chatter on the radio about a pursuit in Eagan. A colleague with the Eagan PD was chasing a man on a blue and white motorcycle traveling east on Diffley. The officer soon spotted the suspect himself, idling in the westbound lane at the intersection of Pilot Knob and 140th Street.

The suspect driver turned north on Pilot Knob and the officer activated his emergency lights. The suspect pulled over and slowed as if he was going to stop, then sped away, and a chase ensued. Another squad joined in the pursuit as they barreled down Pilot Knob, approaching the intersection at Diamond Path. The motorcyclist turned south onto Diamond Path, blowing through a stop sign at 140th Street. The motorcycle raced through the intersection, narrowly avoiding a crash with a minivan. At that point, officers estimate that the driver was going over 100 miles an hour.

The motorcycle swerved south onto Dodd Boulevard at that point, and was intercepted by a Rosemount squad, which also gave chase. The driver led the officers on a roundabout spree from Dodd to Shannon Parkway to Diamond Path and back to 145th Street. The suspect gunned east on 145th, passing Dallara, swerved south on Canada Avenue, east on Lower 150th and then went north on Camfield Circle—a street that dead ends in a cul-de-sac. Undeterred, the driver jumped the curb and raced through a nearby city park. 

The officers lost sight of the motorcyclist on Lower 147th Street and discontinued the chase. 

However, the driver reappeared a few hours later in Hampton Township, a rural community south and east of Farmington, where the Sheriff's Office was called to the scene of a burglary in progress. When deputies arrived they saw a white man in a black shirt and bib overalls standing next to a blue motorcycle with a ballpeen hammer in his hands.

Deputies ordered the man to the ground at gunpoint. Instead, the man put on a helmet and revved up the motorcycle.

He began rolling across the driveway, but one of the deputies tried to push him off the bike. The motorcycle almost tippled over, swerved and then rammed into another vehicle parked nearby. Down but not out, the man kept trying to accelerate, though both deputies were grabbing him, trying to pull him off. The suspect eventually broke away from their grasp, only to be felled by a well-aimed tazer. Stunned, the man and bike ran into yet another vehicle parked in the driveway.

At that point, Siemers was arrested. The motorbike turned out to be stolen. The two cars battered during the encore in Hampton Township sustained damages of over $1,000. 

For the first incident, Siemers is charged with fleeing police, a felony carrying up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Siemers faces three more felony charges for fleeing, receiving stolen property and first-degree property damage for the incident in Hampton Township.


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