2 arrested after officials seize over 30 pounds of prescription medicine following chase in East Texas - CBS19.tv KYTX

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Officials are searching for different fishy who evaded arrest.

NACOGDOCHES COUNTY, Texas — Two men from the Midwestern U.S. were arrested aft a high-speed pursuit spanning aggregate East Texas counties successful which authorities seized implicit 30 gallons of medicine medicine.

Demarco Bell, 28, of Chicago, Illinois, and Jaylen Joshua Johnson, 22, of Indianapolis, Indiana, were charged with evading apprehension and possession of a unsafe cause pursuing the Jan. 12 pursuit, according to the Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office.

Officials are searching for different fishy who evaded arrest.

Deputies tried to halt a Hyundai Sonata earlier 8 a.m. Jan. 12 successful the 8700 artifact of U.S. 259 North, but the operator drove distant reaching speeds of implicit 100 mph. He went northbound and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers followed the car into Rusk County, the sheriff's bureau said. 

According to officials, the operator turned connected to State Highway 315 and Rusk County officials tried to halt him, but helium reached 115 mph and headed toward Panola County. 

Constables successful Panola County deployed spike strips to halt the conveyance but the operator avoided them. The operator past swerved toward a Panola County lawman constable, who fired astatine the vehicle. 

The pursuit continued into downtown Carthage, wherever 2 fled connected ft and 1 of them was arrested. A 3rd idiosyncratic kept evading apprehension utilizing the vehicle, officials said.  

The pursuit kept going connected U.S. 59 to done Tenaha and into Timpson earlier the operator stopped adjacent the intersection of U.S. 59 and CR 414 successful Panola County. The operator was past arrested, according to the sheriff's office. 

Officers recovered 3 suitcases and 3 cardboard boxes packed with 252 one-pint bottles of promethazine, a medicine antihistamine medicine. it's chartless however the suspects obtained the medicine. 

Bell and Johnson were booked into jailhouse but some person since bonded out. Additional charges are possible, the sheriff's bureau said. 

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