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MOORHEAD, MN: The Moorhead Police Department has launched an internal investigation into Tuesday’s pursuit of a wanted man who drove through a busy golf course as three squad cars chased him, sending golfers scurrying for safety.
The handling of the chase, which ended with an arrest at West Acres Mall in Fargo, has also prompted Fargo police officials to question the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s decision to have plainclothes agents hunt for the suspect, Kendall Scott Feist, in the mall with their guns drawn.
Feist, who had felony warrants for his arrest, was spotted at a business in the Moorhead Industrial Park at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, and he drove off before officers arrived, Moorhead police said.
When officers tried to pull him over, he sped away and eventually drove across the Village Green Golf Course, tearing up greens and fairways.
Terry Kragero Jr. said he was on the driving range hitting balls with his 5-year-old son when he heard sirens and saw a helicopter overhead. Kragero at first thought there had been a car accident, but then he saw the pickup driving down the range, bouncing over small hills as it went.
“He was coming straight at us,” the 31-year-old father said. “I grabbed my son, and we kind of started running back toward the clubhouse.”
Kragero said the pickup veered away from the golfers on the range and continued through the course, with three squad cars in pursuit. He guesses the pickup was going about 40 or 50 mph.
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