PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY DUO ARRESTED FOR METH TRAFFICKING AFTER HIGH SPEED VEHICLE CHASE FROM STATE POLICE
WANTED MAN GETS IN DEEPER CRIMINAL JEOPARDIES: AUSTIN SLONE (PHOTO TOP), 30 OF PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY; ALONG WITH ELISHA R. ROBINSON, 40, OF ROBINSON CREEK, KY., WERE ARRESTED AFTER LEADING LAW ENFORCEMENT ON A HICH-SPEED CHASE IN PIKE COUNTY ON OCTOBER 8, WHICH AFTER THE END OF THE PURSUIT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF METH IN THEIR CAR, AND AUSTIN SLONE WANTED ON SEVEN WARRANTS.
A Pike County, Kentucky man who was apparently wanted on six court bench warrants and an out of state fugitive warrant, along with a Pike County, KY. woman, were both arrested after a high-speed chase came to an end in a ditch in Pike County and police found meth in the car.
According to the arrest citation from the Kentucky State Police Post 9 in Pikeville, trooper Nicholas Taylor was patrolling U.S. 460 on early Tuesday evening, October 8, when he spotted a pickup truck with a broken windshield traveling along the highway.Trooper Taylor attempted to pull it over, but the truck sped away instead, leading to a pursuit reaching speeds of 90 miles an hour.
Further on in the citation by Trooper Taylor, he noted in the report that the truck was weaving all over the road, and that the chase finally came to an end when it got stuck in a ditch at Flanary Branch.
The driver, who was identified as Austin Slone, 30, of Pikeville, KY., failed a field sobriety test and then passed out in the police car after he was arrested.
A search of the truck located more than 2 grams of meth, along with a large amount of cash and several plastic bags.
Neither Austin Slone nor his passenger, identified as Elisha R. Robinson, 40, of Robinson Creek, KY., would claim ownership of the drugs, so both were arrested for meth trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Austin Slone was charged with the following:
- SPEEDING 26 MPH OR > SPEED LIMIT,
- *CARELESS DRIVING,
- *OPERATING ON SUSPENDED OR REVOKED OPERATORS LICENSE,
- *FLEEING OR EVADING POLICE, 1ST DEGREE (MOTOR VEHICLE),
- *OPERATING MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER/INFLUENCE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE (189A.010(1D) – 1ST OFFENSE,
- *FAILURE TO WEAR SEATBELTS,
- *TRAFFICKING IN CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE – (> OR = 2 GRAMS METHAMPHETAMINE),
- *DRUG PARAPHERNALIA – BUY/POSSESS,
- *OBSTRUCTED VISION AND/OR WINDSHIELD,
- *FAILURE TO PRODUCE INSURANCE CARD,
- *NO REGISTRATION RECEIPT,
- *FAILURE TO OR IMPROPER SIGNAL.
Austin Slone also had seven bench warrants, six from Pike County, which were for:
- FAILURE TO APPEAR(6 COUNTS); and also a:
- *FUGITIVE WARRANT FROM ANOTHER STATE – WARRANT REQUIRED (BUCHANAN COUNTY, VIRGINIA).
Austin Slone is currently being held in the Pike County Detention Center in Pikeville, on separate bonds for $20,000 full cash only involving the police chase, another $20,400 and a mandatory appearance in front of Judge Howard Keith Hall on the Failure To Appear warrants. Austin Slone has two courts dates scheduled for Thursday, October 17; one at 9:00 A.M. in Pike County Circuit Court, followed by at 1:00 P.M. in Pike County District Court.
Elisha Robinson was charged
- TRAFFICKING IN CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE – (> OR = 2 GRAMS METHAMPHETAMINE),
- *DRUG PARAPHERNALIA – BUY/POSSESS.
Elisha Robinson was taken to the Pike County Detention Center; where she has been released on a $20,000 surety bond, to which she was also placed on home incarceration confinement.
