On Sunday, May 16, 2004,at approximately 5:00 a.m., The Lafayette City Police Department received a call from a concerned citizen of a suspicious vehicle parked on Meador Drive. Sergeant Ray Amalfitano and Officer Jeff Tucker responded to the call. Upon their arrival, the vehicle had left the area. The officers continued to patrol when Officer Tucker spotted the vehicle, a green 1996 Pontiac, in the parking lot near Presley's Pizza. As Tucker approached the parking lot and the vehicle, the passenger, who was standing outside of the vehicle, jumped into the vehicle at which time it sped off at a high rate of speed.
Officer Tucker gave pursuit and followed the suspects and their vehicle into Fred's parking lot, around Pizza Hut, back to Scottsville Road, into Jr. Food's parking lot at which time the vehicle headed north behind Kirby's Barber Shop where the vehicle jumped a ditch at Handy Lane and came to a stop. The suspects jumped out of the car and fled on foot.
Sergeant Amalfitano and Officer Tucker radioed to request back up to seal off the area. Lt. Matt Looper, Patrolman Kevin Woodard along with Macon County Sheriff Deputies Danny Gross and Michael Veatch and Red Boiling Springs Officer Doug McDonald set up a perimeter of the area and after a short manhunt both suspects were apprehended and taken into custody.
The driver of the vehicle was identified as Archie Weatherford, age 37, of Carthage, TN. The passenger was identified as Ricky Bowman, age 19, also of Carthage, TN.
Confiscated from the vehicle were several schedule 11 and schedule VI drugs and drug paraphernalia, a .22 caliber revolver, a .38 caliber Derringer, a police scanner with local police frequencies programmed into it, and two walkie talkie radios.
Mr. Weatherford was charged with evading arrest, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, DUI 2nd offense, resisting arrest, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession for the purpose of resale and manufacturing a schedule 11 narcotic, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a schedule VI narcotic. A preliminary hearing for Mr. Weatherford has been set for June 23, 2004, at 9 a.m. in the General Session Court. He is presently housed in Macon County Jail under a $35,000 bond.
The passenger, Ricky Bowman, was charged with unlawfully carrying a firearm and underage consumption. His court date has been set for June 23, 2004 and he is also housed in the Macon County Jail under a $750.00 bond.
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