EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR) – A Cass Lake, Minnesota man is charged with fleeing and unauthorized use of a vehicle after getting arrested after swimming across the Red River early Thursday morning.
Around 3:30 an East Grand Forks officer saw a pickup speeding, driving erratically, and not pulling over. It went down a dead-end, gravel road and officers later found no one was inside it.
They later saw the man in the Red River. After swimming to the North Dakota side, 21-year-old Jerome White was arrested.
Officers found out the pickup was reported stolen.
White has numerous open cases for theft, attempted aggravated robbery, assault, and receiving stolen property.