A 21-year-old Madison man faces several charges, including attempting to elude a police officer, after crashing his vehicle into a snow bank Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect, Deon Howard, allegedly ran a stop sign at the 3100 block of Todd Drive. The officer turned on his siren and lights, but the suspect kept driving and ran a series of stop signs, police said.
The officers followed Howard to the intersection of McDivitt Road and Ashford Lane. The suspect crashed into a snow drift off the road, Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said.
Madison Police dog Ivan led officers to the basement of an apartment building on the 3000 block of Ashford Lane where the suspect was found, police said.
At the crash scene, officers said the interior of the suspect's car smelled of marijuana and there were several open alcohol bottles and unopened beers in the car, DeSpain said.
""After being handcuffed in the Ashford Lane basement an officer reports that the suspect said, ‘I've been through all this before,'"" DeSpain said in a statement.
