A suspect who was detained after leading police on a foot chase in northwest Indiana has escaped custody at a local hospital.
According to police in Griffith, officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by Alton West III on Saturday. West attempted to flee the traffic stop, but his car broke down near the Illinois-Indiana state line.
From there he attempted to evade officers on foot, and even at one point grabbed an officer’s Taser, according to police…