YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - A Yankton man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a shootout following a law enforcement pursuit.
South Dakota’s attorney general said Monday Curt Wayne Adams earlier entered a no contest plea to aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer stemming from an attempted traffic stop in December 2016.
Adams led a North Dakota Highway Patrol trooper on a 20-minute chase. Prosecutors say Adams displayed a weapon during the chase and after his vehicle was stopped exchanged gunfire with the trooper. Adams was struck and wounded by gunfire.
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Adams remains jailed in Yankton County until he’s transferred to the South Dakota State Penitentiary. He was given an 18-year sentence with three of those years suspended.
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