A high-speed chase from the Grambling State University campus to Louisiana Tech farm campus resulted in numerous charges against a Shreveport man Thursday.
A GSU officer on patrol encountered a white Honda Civic stopped in the middle of Younger Street with a male driver talking to two females in the roadway. GSU Corporal I. Boldes asked the driver to pull into a parking space. He reportedly replied “okay” and sped off at a high rate of speed. Boldes turned around and pursued the Honda which sped through a parking lot, almost striking some students. The suspect turned south on Main Street and failed to stop at a stop sign at Main and College Ave., then proceeded west on College where he passed into the opposing lane around stopped traffic and failed to stop at the stop sign at College and R.W.E. Jones Drive. The Honda continued south on Jones Dr. reaching speeds of 70 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone, running the stop sign at the intersection of Jones and U.S. Highway 80.
Continuing east on U.S. 80, the suspect passed multiple vehicles in no passing zones, reaching speeds over 100 mph in a 55-mph zone. After entering the city of Ruston, the suspect turned on to Reese Drive and stopped his vehicle at Reese Hall on the Louisiana Tech South Campus.
The driver, Ievane Ezekiel Adams, 20, of Shreveport, was ordered from the vehicle and arrested. During a search of the vehicle, a plastic bag containing suspected marijuana was found in the driver side door. A backpack on the back seat contained three plastic bags of suspected marijuana, a pistol, a pistol magazine containing 31 rounds of ammunition, two rolled blunts containing suspected marijuana and a digital scale commonly used for measuring narcotics.
Adams was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, illegal use of a firearm during commission of a drug felony, aggravated flight from an officer, obstructing public passages, reckless operation of a vehicle, speeding, and other traffic violations.
Bail was set at $35,000.
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