A man is facing numerous charges after fleeing and hiding from police.
Salina Police Captain James Feldman tells KSAL News Tuesday afternoon an officer on patrol suspected a driver of a Nissan Pathfinder was on the road with a suspended license. The officer attempted to pull over the car in the 900 block of Willis, but the driver fled.
Authorities did not pursue due to ongoing traffic, but discovered the suspect almost wrecked on Broadway and S 9th St. The driver hit a top speed of 68 mph.
Police observed the suspect later pulled into the parking lot of Kraft Manor on 9th St and got out of the car to hide behind a building. He then tossed a bag of marijuana into the backyard of a nearby home. Authorities arrested 38-year old Anthony Mack II.
Officers located 16 grams of cocaine inside Mack’s car and executed a search warrant inside his home in the 1000 block of Yale. Captain Feldman says in the search they found marijuana, 160 grams of cocaine, stashes of money and two firearms.
Mack could face charges which include:
- Distribute opiate, opium, narcotic, certain stimulant; 3.5 – < 100 grams
- Use/poss drug paraphernalian/human body
- Flee or attempt to elude; reckless driving
- Poss of marijuana
- Poss of opiate, narcotic, or certain stimulant
- Taxation; Drugs; No drug tax stamp for marijuana or cont substance
- Agg endanger child; Expose to sale meth/fentanyl
- Distribute marijuana; < 25 grams
- Distribute marijuana; 25 – < 450 grams
- Distribute opiate, opium, narcotic, certain stimulant; 100 grams – < 1 kilogram
- Use/poss drug paraphernalian/human body
- Distribute or poss w/int to distribute drug paraph for illegal use
- Poss of marijuana
- Poss of opiate, narcotic, or certain stimulant
- Taxation; Drugs; No drug tax stamp for marijuana or cont substance
