Two Pike County residents were arrested in the Mouthcard area Oct. 8 on drug trafficking and other charges, according to police records.
Austin Slone, 30, Bent Branch Road, Pikeville, was charged with first-offense DUI, first-degree fleeing or evading police (motor vehicle), first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (methamphetamine, first offense), possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to appear, fugitive from another state and traffic violations, according to information from the Pike County Detention Center..
Elisha R. Robinson, 40, Groundhog Road, Robinson Creek, was charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (methamphetamine, first offense) and possession of drug paraphernalia, jail records show.
Kentucky State Police Trooper Nicholas Taylor wrote in a citation that he observed a white Dodge truck with a broken windshield at Flanary Branch. Taylor wrote in the citation that when he attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver fled.
“The vehicle took off at a high rate of speed,” he wrote. “I turned on my sirens with my lights and (Slone) continued to flee. (Slone) was all over the roadway. I got the vehicle stopped after it got stuck in a ditch.”
Taylor wrote that Slone allegedly had slow speech, a raspy voice, constricted pupils and slow movements. After allegedly failing a field sobriety test, Slone was placed in the patrol cruiser where he subsequently fell asleep, the citation said.
“I located inside the vehicle, a large amount of money, more than 2 grams of methamphetamine and multiple small baggies with no residue inside of them, syringes and pipes,” Taylor wrote.
Neither Slone nor Robinson would claim ownership of the items found inside the truck, Taylor wrote, so he arrested both of them. They were lodged in the Pike County Detention where they remained in custody as of presstime.