MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING COP CAR ARRESTED IN LETCHER COUNTY
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Kentucky State Police have arrested a man in Letcher County who is accused of stealing a Perry County Sheriff’s Cruiser on Wednesday. The missing cruiser was also recovered here.
Trooper Brandon Watts arrested Christopher Combs, 30, of Perry County, on Buck Creek after a foot chase earlier today (August 14).
Police recovered the missing police car shortly afterward, also on Buck Creek.
Combs is in the Letcher County Jail charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (first offense, equal to or more than 2 grams), Possession of drug paraphernalia, second-degree possession of a controlled substance (drug unspecified), first-degree fleeing or evading police, speeding 28 miles per hour or more over the limit, first-degree wanton endangerment, no registration plates, being a persistent felony offender II, menacing, and public intoxication (controlled substance).
The Perry County Advocate is reporting Perry County deputies arrested Combs on an indictment warrant on Wednesday and found more than 40 grams of methamphetamine and several thousand dollars in cash during the investigation.
The deputy transporting Combs in the back of an agency-owned black Dodge Charger police cruiser and was in Perry County Park when Combs escaped from his handcuffs, slipped into the driver’s seat and drove away.
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