Steuben County, IN-A 39 year old man from Orland was arrested last night on charges of resisting law enforcement and manufacturing meth following a complaint of trespassing on someone's property.
According to Trooper Matt Lazoff, at approximately 7:30 p.m. he and a Steuben County Sheriff Deputy arrived at a residence in the 5800 W block of County Road 760 N to look into a complaint that someone may have been trespassing on private property and left a meth lab behind.
After speaking with the property owner and obtaining information on a possible suspect, Lazoff and the Deputy observed a Ford Explorer pulling a trailer drive by with the identified suspect driving. Lazoff caught up to the vehicle as it pulled into a driveway in the 100 block of Lane 201 at Pleasant Lake. Lazoff began a conversation with Larry W. Wiseman, 39 from Orland and as a result of the conversation and some computer checks, Wiseman was found to have suspended driving privileges and an expired license plate.
Wiseman was asked to sit in the back seat of his Explorer while Lazoff attempted to find someone to take control of the vehicle. A moment later, Wiseman was asked to exit the vehicle and when he did, he had a plastic bottle in his hand that he was trying to push down into his pant pocket as well as lithium battery. Lazoff, Trooper Andrew Garret and the Deputy were giving numerous verbal commands to Wiseman, none of which he was complying with as the officers attempted to take him into custody.
While Wiseman was physically resistant to their efforts, he took the plastic bottle and threw it. A taser was deployed and his aggressvie actions were stopped enough for the officers to take him into custody. He was then taken to Cameron Hospital where he was medically cleared for incarceration in the Steuben County Jail under preliminary charges of:
• Resisting Law Enforcement
• Manufacturing Methamphetamine
None of the officers involved in this incident sustained injury and the plastic bottle was found to have been a one pot meth lab.
All Suspects Are Presumed Innocent Until Proven Guilty in a Court of Law
