By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Local law enforcement personnel are looking for the person who led a Saline County Sheriff's deputy on a chase through parts of Salina while tossing plastic bags of marijuana out the window.
Saline County Sheriff's Lieutenant Jeremiah Hayes said this morning that at approximately 10:30 p.m. Saturday, a deputy attempted to stop a Chevrolet Malibu in the 200 block of S. Broadway Boulevard, however, the car took off southbound. While driving around the S. Broadway Boulevard/W. Crawford Street area, the driver began tossing plastic bags out the window. Hays said the bags were found to contain marijuana.
The Malibu headed west to Centennial Road and then south to W. Schilling Road, before heading east to S. Ninth Street, where the deputy lost sight of the car, Hayes said.
The deputy was able to get the car's license plate number and trace the car back to a resident in Bridgeport. Hayes said the sheriff's office got a search warrant for the car and deputies found additional marijuana inside. The car was impounded.
Hayes said an arrest is pending in the case.