A Ruston man was arrested last week after the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a trespassing report.
Dekedrick D. Mardis, 32, was arrested March 26 for criminal trespass, drug possession, and other charges after a complaint from his relative.
Deputies were told that Mardis had been sleeping in his relative’s car at night without her knowledge. She provided images from a security camera and deputies recognized Mardis from previous encounters.
As deputies checked the area trying to locate Mardis, they were notified that he had returned to his relative’s residence. Deputies found him back inside the vehicle and took him in custody.
During a search, a small baggie of suspected methamphetamine was found in his pants pocket. Mardis then began actively resisting and deputies had great difficulty getting him into a patrol vehicle. Eventually, his ankles had to be shackled to place him into the vehicle for transport to the Lincoln Parish Detention Center.
Mardis was booked for possession of methamphetamine, criminal trespass, three counts of resisting an officer, and two warrants for failure to appear in Third District Court on charges of simple criminal damage to property and remaining on premises after being forbidden.
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