Tuesday, March 6, 2012

One nabbed in wild Boundary Waters chase; For some reason, a number of people in Ely are siding more with the snowmobiler who broke the law than with the Forest Service and other agencies that apprehended him.(SPORTS)

Better ways exist to generate sympathy for oneself than to attempt to outrun two police officers, a sheriff's deputy, a half-dozen Forest Service officials and a Department of Natural Resources conservation officer.

But in Ely, a community defense fund has been established for Michael T. Loe, who on Jan. 25 allegedly tried to do just that - on a snowmobile.

The apprehension of Loe, of Ely, took about 2 1/2 hours. Forest Service officials say Loe rode with two friends into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park to fish for lake trout.

After they were spotted by a Forest Service official in an airplane, speeds reached by the fleeing snowmobilers during the subsequent chase - which involved the Forest Service airplane, two Forest …

One nabbed in wild Boundary Waters chase; For some reason, a number of people in Ely are siding more with the snowmobiler who broke the law than with the Forest Service and other agencies that apprehended him.(SPORTS)

Better ways exist to generate sympathy for oneself than to attempt to outrun two police officers, a sheriff's deputy, a half-dozen Forest Service officials and a Department of Natural Resources conservation officer.

But in Ely, a community defense fund has been established for Michael T. Loe, who on Jan. 25 allegedly tried to do just that - on a snowmobile.

The apprehension of Loe, of Ely, took about 2 1/2 hours. Forest Service officials say Loe rode with two friends into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park to fish for lake trout.

After they were spotted by a Forest Service official in an airplane, speeds reached by the fleeing snowmobilers during the subsequent chase - which involved the Forest Service airplane, two Forest …

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