Suspect arrested after throwing supposed drugs off Pascagoula River Bridge, leading deputies on chase

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) – A suspect was arrested in Alabama after a pursuit that began in Mississippi Thursday morning.

According to Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter, the department’s interdiction unit was attempting to make a traffic stop on a vehicle near Highway 57.

A pursuit began. That’s when the suspect in the vehicle threw multiple “objects,” believed to be narcotics, over the Pascagoula River Bridge and into the water as he fled eastbound, Sheriff Ledbetter said…

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