2 Arrested After April 25 Robbery & Pursuit

Jamestown (CSi)  Friday April 25, authorities arrested a Hazen man and a 17 year old male after an alleged robbery in Jamestown, followed by a pursuit that ended in northern Barnes County.

37 year old Darrell Boggs of Hazen is charged with 19 charges, including 13 felonies, in Stutsman and Barnes Counties.

Boggs was charged with 10 Class C and two Class B felony charges in Stutsman County, including robbery, criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, felon in possession of a firearm and five drug-related charges.

In Barnes County, Boggs is charged with a Class C felony, possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine.  He is charged with three Class B misdemeanors: carrying a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle, drove or in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and reckless driving.  Boggs is also charged with fleeing or attempting to flee a police officer, a Class A misdemeanor.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on May 27 for the Barnes County charges. No date has been set for a preliminary hearing on the Stutsman County charges.

Boggs is in the Stutsman County Correctional Center on a $250,000 cash bond.

The 17-year-old male was also allegedly involved in the robbery, but no details have been released about the juvenile. The suspect is being held in a youth correctional facility in Cass County,

The pair are accused in the incident where a woman’s purse was stolen,  between 5-p.m., and 6-p.m., witnessed by a man, in the parking lot between Perkins Restaurant and First Community Credit Union’s branch office, on Highway 281 South.  The woman was then purportedly pushed to the ground by one of the males.

A witness called 9-1-1 and shortly after, a North Dakota Highway Patrol unit pursued  the suspect vehicle on I-94 at mile marker 277 east bound.   The vehicle  crossed I-94 and went back west bound on the interstate, exiting at mile marker 276 and headed north on Barnes County Road 7.   The vehicle continued through Eckelson on a gravel road. The suspect’s vehicle was able to distance itself from law enforcement.

As  the search for the vehicle continued, deputies were alerted by a person who was hunting geese in the area.  The suspect’s vehicle became stuck in a slough and the pair fled on foot.

The two suspects were captured and taken into custody by two Barnes County deputies.

The vehicle was impounded and taken back to Jamestown.

Agency’s involved included:  Jamestown Police Department, Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office, North Dakota Highway Patrol and the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office.