LACROSSE, Wis. — Police talked a man out of a suicidal jump at the Cass Street bridge, ending a 100 mph chase that began 10 miles away at Hokah in Minnesota about3 a.m. Negotiations to bring the man down took several hours. He was taken to a hospital for medical evaluation, then booked into the La Crosse County jail for extradition on back to Minnesota. The chase began after Houston County deputies in Minnesota responded to a call about domestic violence and car theft. Deputies located the car in Hokah but said the driver fled at high speed. At the Cass Street bridge over the Mississippi River into LaCrosse, police were waiting. The driver abandoned car, ran to a barge tied up on shore, and climbed a ladder up a riverside grain silo. LaCrosse police waited him out.
