A 28-year-old man who stole an Austin police squad car and used it during a high-speed chase with Mower County deputies last May near Lyle was sentenced Thursday to probation and community service.

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Jeremy Ashley Winkel, of Austin, received a 15-month prison term stayed for more than seven years of probation after pleading guilty in October in Mower District Court to single felony counts of motor-vehicle theft and fleeing police in a motor vehicle. Winkel stole the squad car of an Austin police officer who was searching for Winkel on foot with a police dog May 21 in relation to an assault report at a rural Lyle residence. The officer and deputy realized the squad was stolen when they heard an unfamiliar voice over law-enforcement radio, which was Winkel in the squad asking what they intended to do with him.

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