Full Notification

                Lt. Jason Cook of the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office charged Cody Lee McKinney, 26, address listed as Harmony Grove Road in Nebo, with failure to heed a blue light or siren, fleeing to elude arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a Schedule III controlled substance, possession of synthetic cannabinoid, reckless driving to endanger, resisting a public officer and failure to stop for a stop sign or flashing red light.
                During the early morning hours of Monday, May 31, deputies were conducting a license checkpoint on Sugar Hill Road, when a Lexus approached, abruptly stopped then sped off. Deputies saw that the driver was McKinney and knew he didn’t have a license.
                Deputies pursued the Lexus to the area of Goose Creek Road and Arrowhead Trail before the vehicle turned onto Quail Hollow Road. During the chase, McKinney drove recklessly and ran a stop sign.
Once he got to Quail Hollow, the suspect fled inside a house, where deputies found him a short time later and took him into custody.
A search of the Lexus turned up Suboxone strips, pills, liquid THC and drug paraphernalia.