A 24-year-old Great Falls man is facing multiple felony charges after police say he led them on a high-speed chase in Bozeman in a stolen pickup truck Wednesday, reaching speeds of 70 mph before crashing into traffic and attempting to flee on foot.

Seth Carpenter Leslie appeared Thursday in Justice Court, where Judge Rick West set his bail at $75,000. Leslie faces nine counts of felony criminal endangerment as well as fleeing or eluding a peace officer, theft, DUI, obstructing a peace officer, resisting arrest, criminal possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

“The allegations in this matter (are) quite concerning,” a prosecutor from the Gallatin County Attorney’s Office said. “Seventy miles per hour in the heart of Bozeman, endangering not only

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