The driver of a dump truck who didn’t stop for a Minnesota State Patrol commercial vehicle inspection outside Duluth on Wednesday morning was arrested after he eventually stopped to use a portable toilet at a gravel pit.
The truck driver apparently refused to stop for an inspection and then led troopers on what appeared to be a chase on Lavaque Road near Fish Lake.
The driver eventually pulled into a gravel pit, drove to a distant area of the pit and left his truck to run into a portable toilet.
Troopers made cell phone contact with the driver while he was inside the porta-potty. The man eventually came out and was apprehended.
“Charges will be pending against the driver. And yes, he was arrested after he came out of a porta-potty,” said Sgt. Neil Dickenson, State Patrol spokesman in Duluth.
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State Patrol spokesman Capt. Eric Roeske also confirmed the incident, which happened about 10 a.m., but said he didn’t have additional details on what the man was charged with. St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office deputies also were involved in the incident.
