A Donaldsonville man smoking a crack pipe led Assumption Parish sheriff’s deputies on a lengthy, pre-dawn car chase down rural highways before authorities could flatten his tires and arrest him in a neighboring parish, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
Iberville Parish sheriff’s deputies had to use tire spikes to stop the man’s car early Saturday, the office said.
Chad A. Falcon, 56, fled an Assumption sheriff’s deputy in Pierre Part shortly after midnight when the officer tried to pull him over on La. 70 near Maryann Street over a traffic violation, deputies said.
Falcon headed west on La. 70 to Belle River, crossed the Belle River bridge and then turned north on La. 997, taking deputies through the small community of Bayou Pigeon, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Around that isolated area, deputies said, they saw Falcon throw contraband out of his car.
Once Iberville deputies stopped the car, Falcon got out with a crack pipe still in his mouth and into a physical confrontation with the deputies, said Lonny Cavalier, the Assumption sheriff’s spokesman.
Cavalier said deputies were unable to find the bag that Falcon allegedly threw out of the car during the chase.
Chad Falcon, who deputies said is not a relative of Assumption Sheriff Leland Falcon, was arrested and taken to a hospital for treatment. He was booked later into the Iberville Parish jail as a fugitive from Assumption.
He was booked Saturday evening into the Assumption Parish Detention Center on counts of aggravated flight from an officer, obstruction of justice, possession of crack cocaine, aggravated assault upon a peace officer, resisting an officer with force or violence, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving on roadway laned for traffic.
Falcon, of the 100 block of Oleander Drive, Donaldsonville, was ordered held without bail, deputies said.
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