Tim Ryan, tryan@wolfrivermedia.com
A Lena man who led authorities on a high-speed chase after being caught in a computer sex crime sting was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a half in jail as a condition of five years of probation.
Jason J. Pfeiffer, 38, pleaded no contest in February to felony charges of child enticement and fleeing. A charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime was dismissed.
Pfeiffer was arrested in December 2015 after attempting to flee from authorities when he showed up for what he believed was going to be a sexual rendezvous with a 15-year-old girl, according to the criminal complaint.
He had, in fact, been communicating online with a Shawano County sheriff’s detective posing as a juvenile.
Pfeiffer sped off when he saw a sheriff’s squad behind him, driving across lawns to elude the squad cars that had him boxed in.
He led authorities on a chase that reached speeds of 100 mph down state Highway 22 into Waupaca County, traveling through Clintonville and Marion as Waupaca County sheriff’s deputies and Clintonville police joined the chase, before taking the pursuit along side roads back into Shawano County.
Authorities contacted him via cellphone during the pursuit and persuaded him to surrender.