TREMPEALEAU, Wis. — Deputies found a Galesville woman locked in a basement bathroom at a rural house where she had fled on foot after a car chase. Shanna Eichman, age 45, was booked at the county jail in Whtiehall. The charges:
> Burglary.
> Recklessly endangering safety.
> Fleeing police.
> Possessing methamphetamine.
> Possessing drug paraphernalia.
> Driving while intoxicated.
> Driving with a revoked license.
According to Trempealeau County court documents: A deputy attempted to pull over Eichman’s vehicle for incorrect plates. When the deputy activated his lights, Eichman accelerated and her driving became erratic. She exceeded speed limits, ran a stop sign, struck a mailbox, and fled to a nearby house. At the house she asked for refuge from the cops. The resident told Eichman to hide in the basement, then locked her down there, and called 911.When deputies arrived, they unlocked the basement door. Eichman came out and explained her presence in the house as having left a sex toy in the abasement bathroom sink and was wanting to recover it. Meanwhile, a juvenile at the home told deputies he found a plastic bag of crystalline material beneath the basement sink. Eichman admitted that the bag was hers and contained meth.