VERMILION LAKE TWP- Charges are pending after a 16-year-old boy from Greenwood Township crashed a vehicle on the Tarkman Rd. in Vermilion Lake Township on Tuesday afternoon.
The Bois Forte Police Department received a report at 11:22 a.m. that the teenager had been drinking and had taken the family vehicle without permission. At 11:35 a.m., the Breitung Police Department and St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report that the same teen had stolen a bottle of alcohol from The Ledge Liquor Store and then fled the scene in his family’s vehicle.
At 2:19 p.m., the sheriff’s department received a report of a single vehicle accident. The teen had driven the vehicle into the ditch on Tarkman Rd. and was unconscious when law enforcement arrived on the scene. He was transported to Essentia Health Hospital in Virginia with non-life-threatening injuries.
Alcohol was involved and charges are pending, according to the sheriff’s report.