A Bedford man faces four felony charges and three misdemeanors after he was served a warrant for failing to appear in court. The man fled police Tuesday as they tried to arrest him.
Bloomington Police Department officers went to the Quality Inn on West Rappel Drive around 8 p.m. Tuesday after hearing a man they were looking for was staying there.
James Deckard, 30, was charged with the arrest warrant, resisting law enforcement, possessing a glass pipe, obstructing justice, entering a residence, making a false identity statement and possessing meth.
Officers knocked on the door of the room they suspected Deckard would be in, but no one answered.
They heard voices and announced themselves as police. A woman opened the door.
She said Deckard had been in the room but was no longer there. Officers went outside and saw him trying to enter the room directly below the original one through its outside-facing door.
Deckard successfully got into the second room, and officers heard the toilet flush before they entered.
Police found a small plastic bag of what appeared to be meth on Deckard, along with a glass pipe.
The woman who opened the first room’s door allowed police to search the room and said she didn’t know of any drugs there. Officers only found an empty plastic baggie in the room.
