Indiana man charged with fleeing traffic stop with officers inside van on I-65

A man has been arrested on a slew of felony charges after jumping out of a moving van after fleeing a traffic stop while officers were inside his vehicle on Tuesday in northwest Indiana.

Just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday, a Lake County Sheriff’s police officer pulled over a 1998 Chevrolet van that had been driving at 93 mph in a 70 mph zone on southbound Interstate 65.

The driver pulled over but refused to get out of the van, and an officer saw him try to hide a plastic bag of pills. When police tried to pull the driver out of the van, he drove off with two officers inside of the vehicle…

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