South Dakota trooper: Body found in blanket after car chase
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Highway Patrol officials found a dead woman wrapped in a blanket in an SUV stopped after a high-speed chase with a drunk driver from California, a trooper said in a court affidavit filed Tuesday.
A state court complaint says 30-year-old Tosten Walsh Lommen, of Santa Cruz, faces charges including aggravated eluding and drunken driving. Attorney General Marty Jackley's office said in a statement that state authorities are investigating the "suspicious death" after the woman's body was found during a search of the vehicle Lommen was driving.
The Pennington County Clerk of Courts office says Lommen's bond has been set at $2.5 million.