Police pursuit, crash and K-9 named Diesel yields suspect, crack, cash

March 05, 2012|WSBT-TV Report

BERRIEN COUNTY — Seized: Crack cocaine valued at $1,250 and cash totaling $1,730.

Arrested: 27-year-old Taurean Travantei Young of Buchanan.

Young faces five charges: Delivery of cocaine (second offense), fleeing/eluding police causing injury, resisting/obstructing, driving with a suspended license (second offense) and felony probation violation.

Young was booked into the Berrien County Jail after he was treated for minor injuries and released from Lakeland Hospital in Niles.

A passenger in Young's vehicle, a 21-year-old Benton Township man, was treated for minor injuries and released from Memorial Hospital in South Bend, per a police news release.

STING TURN CHASE

A WSBT reporter at the scene says the events began as a sting conducted by the Berrien County Drug Unit at a truck stop on the corner of Mayflower and U.S. 12.

Police say after the suspects sold crack cocaine to undercover officers, other officers attempted to pull them over, but they sped off northbound on Mayflower.

When Young's vehicle came to the T of Mayflower and Niles Buchanan roads, they disregarded the stop sign and then crashed through a guardrail and rolled down an embankment.

Young tried to run, but had a run-in with a K-9 named Diesel.

He was arraigned in Berrien County Trial Court Tuesday

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