BLUE EARTH — An Oakdale man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison in the wake of a high-speed chase in a stolen vehicle that occurred in Faribault County in November 2018.

Charles Francis Kealy, 39, pleaded guilty this week in Faribault County District Court to three counts, including assault with a dangerous weapon, receiving stolen property and theft. He will serve his time in St. Cloud, according to a press release from the office of Faribault County Attorney Kathryn Karjala.

Kealy also has been ordered to pay restitution of $105,307 to Faribault County, businesses and private individuals. Karjala said the case involved more than 15 victims.

“I think this is the largest, or one of the largest, restitution orders granted in Faribault County,” she said.

The county’s chief deputy, Scott Adams, was injured in the chase, which ended in what has been described as a “demolition derby” in a farm field.

According to information reported by the Faribault County Register at the time:

Four vehicles, including three county sheriff’s squads, were damaged in a farm field near Elmore on the morning of Nov. 5, 2018. Two people were injured and taken to the hospital.

Adams said the county was alerted by the Kossuth County, Iowa, Sheriff’s Office of a stolen truck belonging to MJ Electric.

Deputies located the vehicle, a 2012 Ford ST 32000, and pursued it at speeds up to 90 mph.

The truck left the road and the driver tried to escape by driving cross country, entering a field near the 400th Avenue and 30th Street intersection in Elmore Township.

Deputies tried to surround the suspect but he began ramming the deputies’ vehicles.

“I believe he hit my truck or I hit his five or six times, and he hit another deputy twice and the other one once,” Adams told the Register. “We finally stopped him by ramming his front left tire.”

Kealy was arrested at gunpoint. He was taken by ambulance to UHD hospital in Blue Earth with non-life threatening injuries.

Adams was treated at UHD for a bruised neck, shoulders and ribs, as well as a concussion, and then released.