Twoteeth talks to cops with middle finger before chase

POLSON – Lloyd Daryle Twoteeth sent  a message to an MSP trooper when he “extended his arm out the window and stuck his middle finger up” June 26, according to a Lake County Prosecuting Attorney’s office report.

Twoteeth’s reaction was spurred by a 7 p.m. emergency dispatch call informing law enforcement Twoteeth was leaving a hit-and-run auto collision at the Kwa Tuk Nuk parking lot.

By the time the MSP trooper found Twoteeth’s vehicle on Hwy 93, there was little that would stop him.

After Twoteeth acknowledged that he saw the MSP trooper, he “drove into the oncoming traffic lane as he turned onto Light Road.

(Twoteeth) reached speeds up to 80 miles per hour in a posted 35-mph zone,” Lake County Court records said.

Twoteeth eventually returned to Hwy 93 and headed toward Polson, records said.

At one point, as the MSP trooper pursued the disobedient man who was “traveling in medium traffic at speeds up to 90 MPH,” Twoteeth “slammed on his breaks attempting to cause a collision in the middle of Hwy 93,” records said.

“Rear-ending the defendant’s suddenly-stopped vehicle would have likely caused serious bodily injury or death to the trooper,” records said.

To add to already certain insult and potential injury, Twoteeth jumped from his stopped vehicle and approached the trooper in “a fighting stance,” throwing a partially-full beer can, which struck the trooper’s cruiser and began spraying beer into the air.

Twoteeth flung his cigarette, then charged the trooper, records said.

A Flathead Tribal Police officer, who was on scene tazed Twoteeth, but the device “had no effect.”

The MSP trooper attempted a second tazing, but Twoteeth “pulled the probes out of himself and continued his aggressive behavior.”

“(The trooper) and (officer) were forced grapple with (Twoteeth) as he resisted arrest in the median of a busy highway in order to gain control of (Twoteeth) and placed him in handcuffs.

Several other empty beer containers were located inside (Twoteeth’s) vehicle,” records  said.

But Twoteeth wasn’t ready to stop fighting.

“(Twoteeth) continued to fight with officers and had to be placed in a restraint chair. (The trooper) believed that (Twoteeth) was under the influence of alcohol and other dangerous drugs.

(The trooper) applied for, and was granted a search warrant for (Twoteeth’s) blood,” records said. “(Twoteeth) was transported to St. Joseph for a blood draw in full restraints and a spit hood.”

Hours after the hit-and-run, high-speed-chase ended (Twoteeth) had a few things to say to the trooper.

“(Twoteeth told the trooper that he was tired of all the coke, meth and alcohol, and that he had drank enough whisky to make him dizzy,” prosecutors said.

Twoteeth then warned the trooper “would find out what drugs were in his system from his blood test, then laughed.”

The trooper’s interaction ended with a warning:

“(Twoteeth) stated that he had been caught but was not going back to prison for a third time.”

Research later showed Twoteeth had at least three prior drunk driving convictions.

Twoteeth was charged with felony driving under the influence of alcohol, fourth offense and felony criminal endangerment.

After Twoteeth first pled not guilty, then accepted an August plea deal, Lake County District Court Judge, James A. Manley, on Sept. 19, dismissed the second count of criminal endangerment and sentenced Twoteeth to 13 months in a treatment program, and 5 years in the DOC or MSP program determined later, all suspended and run concurrently to the 13-month toxin treatment program.