An Aberdeen man with a prior felony conviction and outstanding warrants led police on a high speed chase through rush hour traffic Monday that ended at the train crossing on Sergeant Boulevard Monday evening.

Aberdeen Police received information at about 5 p.m. that a man in South Aberdeen had a U.S. Marshals warrant as well as a felony Department of Corrections warrant, and that he had a known history of carrying weapons, according to a report issued by Lieutenant Kevin Darst.

A short time later an officer spotted the red Mercury Cougar the subject was reportedly driving. The officer requested backup and followed the vehicle downtown, where another unit attempted to stop the vehicle. The car took off at a high rate of speed, reaching speeds up to 90 miles per hour, striking a civilian vehicle and a police vehicle along the way and speeding past after-work commuters on Highway 12.

The hot pursuit came to a screeching halt when the suspect in the fleeing vehicle turned off the highway at the Junction City exit where he was met by a train that was blocking the crossing, which allowed law enforcement to surrounded the vehicle. The male suspect was ordered to shut off the engine and exit the automobile. But he did not comply forcing officers to break out the windows to extract the suspect, who was telling them to shoot him, said Darst. The suspect continued to resist but was eventually subdued. Officers then searched the vehicle and found a large machete and a knife.

The suspect, Laura B. Moeurn, 36, was transported to the Aberdeen Jail without further incident. He was arrested on the outstanding warrants and charged with felony attempting to elude a police officer, failure to signal, resisting arrest, driving while license suspended third degree, and hit and run, among other charges, said Darst.

One Aberdeen officer received a minor injury during the incident.

The warrants stem from a previous conviction Moeurn had in the county, which made some legal waves in 2010. Moeurn appealed his sentencing in that case, in which he was convicted for hitting a man in the head with a 2×4 outside Captain’s Corner bar in January 2007. He argued the classification for that assault charge was incorrect, and a juvenile assault charge should not have been a factor in calculating his sentence as it had “washed out,” a legal term meaning it was no longer applicable in the calculation of his sentence. That case went to the State Supreme Court and, in a decision authored by Justice Gerry L. Alexander in October 2010, the court decided in Moeurn’s favor. He was still sentenced and eventually released in May 2012.