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Several repeat drug offenders, including a man who led city and county law enforcement officers on a high speed chase in June, and a teenage duo responsible for break-ins at area golf courses answered to felony charges this week in Logan County Common Pleas Court.
Franklin Brandyberry, 52, of Lakeview, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and fleeing and eluding and will be sentenced March 27.
Officers of the Bellefontaine Police Department began following a car registered to Mr. Brandyberry at about 9:30 p.m. June 17 after seeing him leave a house where drug activity was suspected. Officers attempted to stop him for not using a turn signal before he fled west on County Road 130 at speeds nearing 90 mph.
Detectives of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office were called to assist in the pursuit before the driver attempted to hide in a field along the portion of County Road 39 which dead ends near U.S. Route 33, before fleeing again.
The driver was seen outside the vehicle and a subsequent search of that area turned up suspected heroin.
The chase was discontinued and officers used his license plate information to track him to his Lakeview home.
Deputies apprehended him about 1:45 a.m. hiding in a shed after a short foot chase in Lakeview.
• Niesha Mundy, 30, of Bellefontaine, was sentenced to three years in prison for trafficking in cocaine, two counts of possession of cocaine and a community control violation.
Read complete COMMON PLEAS COURT NEWS in Thursday’s Examiner.
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