Trace Michael Bradley

KOSCIUSKO — A Laketon man who led local officers on a police pursuit into Wabash County is faced with charges related to drugs.

Trace Michael Bradley, 19, 5 S. Main St., Laketon, is being charged with resisting law enforcement, a level 6 felony; dealing marijuana, a class A misdemeanor; and possession of marijuana, a class A misdemeanor.

On Dec. 6, an officer with the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department observed a gray Mazda disregard a stop sign at the intersection of County Farm Road and CR 700S. The officer activated his emergency lights in an attempt to stop the vehicle and the Mazda accelerated, turned onto Hoppus, turned onto CR 200W and continued to CR 550S.

A Silver Lake Police Officer observed the Mazda driving southbound on SR 15. The vehicle continued to elude officers until he drove into a driveway and through a fence in Wabash County. Officers were then able to arrest and identified the driver as Bradley.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, officers impounded the vehicle and conducted a search. Inside the vehicle, officers found six individually packaged plastic bags of marijuana, scales, grinder, empty ziplock bags and pills that look like kids chewable vitamins that officers believe may be treated with an illegal drug. Based on the officers’ past training, they believe the bags were packaged as if intended for sale.

Officers spoke with Bradley, who admitted he resisted law enforcement because his driver’s license was suspended-infraction and he had marijuana.

He was booked into the Kosciusko County Jail on Dec. 6.