A man from Arkansas has had his first court date this week after being arrested for fleeing from deputies while throwing drugs out of the window of his vehicle. Thirty-one-year-old Jaycob Luke Anderson of Searcy, who has five previous felony arrests in Arkansas, is facing seven charges for his latest arrest, four of them felonies.According to the probable cause affidavit from the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened Sept. 3 when two deputies were on patrol in the Tecumseh area. They passed a vehicle which abruptly made a turn into a driveway. The deputies turned around to check on the vehicle which was stationary in the driveway with its headlights off, but the brake lights were on, so the deputies pulled in behind the vehicle and turned on their emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop.
As the deputies approached, Anderson closed the driver’s side door, started the vehicle and fled the scene.
As the pursuit went down County Road 551, also known as Smokey Road, Anderson was driving erratically, swerving across the centerline, driving into the ditch and slamming on his brakes. Throughout the pursuit, small plastic baggies were thrown from the vehicle.
Anderson eventually turned onto Stump Hole Access Road near Norfork Lake and became stuck in a mud pit on the dead end road. When the deputies arrived at the vehicle, Anderson had fled on foot, but he returned a short time later and was taken into custody…