A Chuckey man is facing charges after fleeing from police and wrecking his vehicle early this morning.
Around 12:30 AM, a deputy with the Greene County Sheriff’s Department initiated a traffic stop on a car pulling a trailer for a broken taillight and a trailer with no lights on it at the intersection of Pleasant Hill Road and Erwin Highway. The vehicle did not stop and continued onto Painter Road toward Wilhoit Road. The vehicle then wrecked into a creek around the 500 block of Painter Road.
As the deputy approached the car, the driver fled on foot through a field and ignored commands to stop. The driver, identified as Robert C. Landers of Fox Glen Road, was apprehended after a brief foot pursuit. Once back to the crash scene, Landers was found to have a baggie containing a substance identified as methamphetamine on his person. Another bag with suspected meth was found on the ground at the crash scene.
Landers had an active warrant for violation of probation. He was charged with felony evading arrest, resisting arrest, driving on a suspended license 1st offense, possession of a schedule 2 drug, and resisting stop, frisk, halt, arrest or search.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol was called to the scene to investigate the wreck due to it being pursuit related.
