STORM LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - A minor was taken into custody on Wednesday after leading Storm Lake officers in a chase.

On August 13, at 2:40 p.m., the Storm Lake Police Department received reports that a reckless driver in a silver Nissan was passing vehicles at a high rate of speed in the 200 block of Cayuga Street.

Officers attempted to perform a traffic stop on the vehicle at East Lakeshore Drive and Chautauqua Park Drive.

This driver, now identified as a 12-year-old boy, failed to stop for officers and accelerated into an active construction area at high speeds.

According to the Storm Lake Police Department’s Facebook page , the city’s public works department had been patching potholes.

“The street had become a cone-lined, oil-slicked obstacle course straight out of Mario Kart’s To

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