A Wisconsin truck driver has pleaded guilty on charges stemming from a 4.5-mile pursuit on Route 6 last week.

Satpal Singh, 46, Oak Creek, Wisc., pleaded guilty to two charges that resulted in $1,216 in fines during a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning.

The hearing required an interpreter as Singh speaks Hindi.

Pennsylvania State Police were dispatched on Sept. 21 at approximately 8:47 a.m. for a report of an erratic driver operating a tractor trailer on Route 6 near Danielson Hill Road.

Police “observed the truck cross the center dividing lines and fog line multiple times,” according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Troopers then attempted to initiate a traffic stop near Mead Run Road, but Singh “failed to stop the vehicle…. The vehicle continued east on SR 6 crossing the center dividing line and fog line multiple times.”

Singh “failed to stop the vehicle and crossed the fog line before almost striking the bridge abutment where National Forge Rd. Crosses above Sr. 6,” police reported in the affidavit. “As (Singh) passed the eastbound exit ramp for SR 62 he made an abrupt lane change to merge on to the SR 62 off ramp.”

Troopers then placed a vehicle in front of Singh’s vehicle and another on his left. “At this time the Defendant stopped the vehicle and was taken into custody,” police said.

Two troopers and a Youngsville Borough police officer participated in the chase, which lasted about 4.5 miles.

Singh was subsequently charged with misdemeanor fleeing or attempting to elude officer as well as summary obedience to traffic control devices, fail to keep right, fail to yield right, disregard traffic lane, turning movements and required signals, careless driving, reckless driving and failure to use safety belt.

A phone interpretation service was utilized to provide the discussions in Hindi at a cost of $3.95 per minute.

He pleaded to summary reckless driving as well as misdemeanor false swearing which, according to the county code, is committed when a “person… makes a false statement under oath or equivalent affirmation, or swears or affirms the truth of such a statement previously made, when he does not believe the statement to be true.”

While trying to work through the plea in conjunction with the interpreter, Singh at one point said, “America is our motherland.” He later said, “I’m very sorry. I respect America.”

Officials indicated that federal immigration authorities were going to be contacted in this matter.