LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — If you saw a large Metro Moore County Sheriff Department response in the field across from Jiffy Mart on Thursday night, here’s the scoop.

Sometime around 8 p.m. on March 5, local deputy Cody Lanier observed a 1997 Dodge R15 truck driving at a high rate of speed as he patrolled Highway 55. Deputy Lanier confirmed that the driver was travelling 70 mph in a 55 mph zone, and pursued to make a routine traffic stop. The driver fled —passing two vehicles on the left side of the road at a high rate of speed, then turned off his headlights in an attempt to evade Deputy Lanier.

According to the report, the driver met seven oncoming vehicles without the benefit of headlights before entering and exiting the Jiffy Mart parking lot near B&M Lane and into a field where his joyride ended in the creek.

After observing “multiple indicators that the defendant was under the influence,” deputies searched the vehicle and found a marijuana pipe as well as a baggie containing a leafy green material suspected to be marijuana outside the vehicle.

Deputies arrested the driver, 18-year-old Aden James Rebisz, at the scene. Two juvenile passengers were not detained. Local officials charged Rebisz — a Lewisburg resident — with allegedly driving under the influence, speeding, fleeing police, multiple counts of reckless endangerment, light law — motor vehicle, and drug paraphernalia. •

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