The pursuit of a semi this (Thursday) morning in Polk County ended with the driver being tased. According to WHO-TV in Des Moines, the pursuit began  just east of Altoona in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80, near mile marker 143. Sgt. Nathan Ludwig with the Iowa State Patrol, told the station when a state trooper tried to pull the semi over at around 6:30-a.m., the driver took off.

A pursuit that followed went on for about 13 miles before the rig stopped just short of stop-sticks on I-80/35, under the 86th Street Bridge. The driver of the semi, 46-year-old Ryan Tourtillott of Apple Valley, California, refused to leave the vehicle, and was not responding to the six officers ordering him to get out of the truck. After officers deployed a Taser, Tourtillott was transported to the hospital for evaluation.