Special Agent in Charge Larry Hedlund of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, 55, initiated an April 26 pursuit of an SUV that zipped past him doing "a hard 90" mph on Highway 20 in northern Iowa. He pursued the vehicle and asked dispatchers to send a trooper to make a stop. A trooper clocked the SUV at 84 mph and raced to catch up, but ultimately didn't stop the vehicle after seeing it was another trooper who was driving Branstad. Hedlund complained to superiors that the high-speed pursuit endangered safety, noting the vehicles had driven past a school bus. He said he believed speeding by the governor's driver was common because of pressure to meet his schedule, and Branstad shouldn't be above the law. Hedlund was then wrongfully terminated as retaliation for the complaint.
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