Men Caught With Drugs, Money After Fleeing From Police

A Sept. 22 afternoon patrol in the area of Auburn Road and Fence Road turned into a high-speed pursuit after a vehicle quickly left the scene of what initially appeared to be an accident.

According to the Gwinnett County Police report, the officer was on patrol when he noticed two vehicles on Fence Road, one of which -- a tan Ford Taurus -- appeared to be blocking a white passenger vehicle. Upon spotting the patrol car, a man who had been standing near the white passenger vehicle ran back to the Taurus. The driver of the white passenger vehicle then backed up and drove around the Taurus at a high rate of speed. The white passenger vehicle turned onto Auburn Road and the tan Taurus followed.

The officer began following the vehicles.

“The driver of the white vehicle saw me turning around and accelerated,” the officer wrote in the report. “The vehicle was in excess of 80 miles per hour and traveling west on Auburn Road toward Dacula.”

The driver of the white vehicle attempted to slow down to turn on Chippewa Oak Drive, but struck a curb and blew a tire. The driver and passenger exited the vehicle and started to run.

“I drew my duty weapon and ordered the subjects to stop where they were,” the officer wrote in the arrest report.

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