Suspicious person complaint at FiveStar leads to felony drug, resisting arrest charges

A suspect is facing several felony drug charges after a report of a suspicious person at a Leitchfield convenience store.

Friday morning at approximately 3:45, Leitchfield Police Department Sgt. DJ Newton and Officer Ty Whitaker were dispatched to FiveStar Food Mart on South Main Street on the report of possibly intoxicated individuals loitering in the back parking lot in a white van.

Grayson County Deputy Thomas Lane soon arrived on scene to assist.

Upon making contact with the suspect, 37-year-old Travis L. Marshall, of Liberty, Indiana, it was determined he was “manifestly under the influence of a substance that was non-alcoholic in nature,” according to the arrest citation.

While making contact with Marshall, officers noticed he was holding a “small cloth bag.” When asked if there was anything illegal in the bag, Marshall tossed the bag into a nearby tree line.

Marshall, as officers attempted to detain him, resisted “for an extended period of time prior to being taken to the ground,” the citation states. The suspect, while on the ground, continued to resist, resulting in Marshall being tased and taken into custody.

Police received consent to search the van from another individual, the citation says, and located methamphetamine, marijuana, two Suboxone tablets, and several pipes along with other drug paraphernalia.

Marshall, after being Mirandized, admitted to police that the bag he tossed contained methamphetamine and that it was methamphetamine the officers found inside the van.

He was transported to the Grayson County Detention Center where deputy jailers found Marshall to be in possession of “numerous marijuana THC pens,” the citation says.

Marshall was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine, drug unspecified), resisting arrest, second-degree promoting contraband, tampering with physical evidence, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, public intoxication (excludes alcohol), and criminal littering.

He was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.

(No mugshot is available)