August 20, 2019
On Sunday August 18th, at 12:58 A.M. an officer from the Bourbon Police Department was dispatched to an alarm call at the liquor store in Bourbon.
While responding, a dark colored pickup truck was reporting as leaving the liquor store driving west on Lincoln Highway. Upon the Bourbon officer attempting to perform a traffic stop on the vehicle, a subject fled the vehicle on foot as the vehicle then continued driving west on Lincoln Highway.
The vehicle pursuit continued west on Lincoln Highway to the area of Iris Road where the vehicle struck stop sticks that a Marshall County Officer had deployed. The vehicle then ran off the roadway and was involved in a property damage collision on Lincoln Highway east of King Road.
34 year old Laydon Nathaniel Butler-Umanos of Fort Wayne was arrested at the scene of the collision. Property located inside of the vehicle was later found to have been taken from the Bourbon liquor store. Also located in the vehicle were items of property belonging to a Country Church, north of Bourbon. Further investigation found that the Country Church had also been broken into and numerous items taken from the building.
Umanos was later transported to the Marshall County Jail where he was lodged for numerous felony charges including Burglary as a level 2 felony. Further charges are pending through the Marshall County Prosecutor`s Office. Officers from the Plymouth Police Department also assisted in the incident.