Caleb Coffey (NW Regional Corrections Center)
CROOKSTON, Minn. (KFGO) – A man who led various law enforcement agencies on a multi-county pursuit in the northern Red River Valley that ended with an officer shooting the man in rural Polk County has been charged.
Caleb Coffey, 34, of Yukon, Oklahoma faces a felony charge of fleeing a police officer. Additional charges are possible.
U.S. Border Patrol agents started chasing Coffey Monday morning after they learned he had a handgun in his car at the Pembina Port of Entry in North Dakota. The chase reached speeds of nearly 120 mph.
Coffey swerved and avoided stop sticks near Warren and Crookston. He ended up in a ditch south of Crookston and hit a patrol vehicle as he tried to get back on a county road. The charges say Coffey then got out of his car with a gun in his hand and put it to his head. After repeated requests to drop the gun, an officer shot Coffey in the leg. He was taken to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks and treated for the leg wound.
Two loaded handguns were recovered. Coffey is in the Northwest Regional Correctional Center in Crookston.
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