ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO ARREST
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 -- 11:33 AM
A routine traffic stop in Neillsville this week led to the arrest of a Medford man who?s been on the run for months.According to police reports, a Neillsville officer spotted a vehicle speeding down US HWY 10; he planned to pull the vehicle over to give the driver a warning, but it turned into the Holiday gas station.
A male passenger left the vehicle quickly, prompting the officer to become suspicious. When confronted, 24-year-old Travis Spinler fled on foot, running through a parking lot and through a residential area near the Olympic Restaurant.
Officers were eventually able to follow his footprints in the snow to a garage on Court Street where they found him lying on the ground.
Spinler has a lengthy criminal history, including arrests for drugs, battery, burglary and resisting.
He told officers he escaped from a halfway house in Medford and has been on the run for several months.
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