Police Set Up Perimeter to Catch Fleeing Drunken Driving Suspect
Police say Michael Soniama Sundufu, of Hopkins, fled a police officer, forcing police to set up a perimeter around a Minnetonka apartment building, and then refused to submit to chemical testing.
A Hopkins man has been charged with felony drunken driving after police say he refused to submit to chemical tests and fled, forcing officers to set up a perimeter around a Minnetonka apartment building so they could arrest him. Michael Soniama Sundufu, 26, is charged with first-degree driving while impaired—refusal to submit to chemical test, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine. Sundufu also faces lesser charges of driving with a canceled license and providing false information to police, gross misdemeanors with a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine, and fleeing police, a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. A Minnetonka police officer on routine …
