Driver skips out on two court dates
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By MARK GUNDERMAN mailto:mark.gunderman@lee.net
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:10 PM CST
It may have happened more than a year ago, but local law enforcement hasn’t forgotten about it, and they’re not about to let Jennifer Sorensen forget it, either.
It was Jan. 11, 2007 when Sorensen, 27, of Rockford, Ill., overturned her red Chevy Monte Carlo on Bridge Street in Chippewa Falls, just south of the bridge, with a state trooper in pursuit.
She had been clocked at 90 mph when she whizzed by the Woodward Avenue intersection.
Sorensen is now being held in the Chippewa County Jail on $10,000 cash bond after having failed to make two court appearances to answer charges of second degree reckless endangerment and causing injury by reckless driving.
According to the criminal complaint, passenger Mark E. Thomas, 23, told authorities that Sorensen had been impatient with drivers not getting out of her way and at one point passed someone on the shoulder at high speed.
Thomas and Sorensen suffered some injuries in the crash, but none serious. The state trooper investigating the crash described Sorensen as becoming sarcastic, vulgar and arrogant, and threatened to sue the trooper.
Sorensen was released on a $1,000 signature bond under the conditions that she not possess or consume alcohol and not leave the state. She was to stay with her brother or mother, both of whom live in this area.
Sorensen failed to appear for a Feb. 6 court date and a warrant was issued. She was apprehended in Illinois on May 25.
She was released from custody again on June 19 after posting a $2,500 cash bond. She did not appear for an Aug. 15 court date and another warrant was issued.
She was apprehended in Illinois again on Jan. 16.
When she was brought back to Chippewa County, Judge Thomas Sazama set the new bond at $10,000 cash.
Last week, District Attorney Jon Theisen charged Sorensen with two counts of bond jumping.
Sorensen is to appear in court Wednesday, and is likely to be there this time.
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