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Dunbar’s Brown led officers on chase before arrest
DAYTON — Dunbar High School basketball player Keontae Brown led officers on a slow-speed chase that led to his arrest last Friday and a drug possession charge that was dropped.
Capsules of suspected heroin were found on the driver’s side floorboard of a Dayton police cruiser after Brown was transported to the Montgomery County Jail, according to a Dayton police report.
Brown, 18, was released from custody Sunday afternoon after having been charged with failure to comply to stop his vehicle.
Dunbar coaches were unavailable for comment, and Brown could not be reached. Brown is a senior starting guard for the Wolverines (12-2), the state’s top-ranked Division II team.
A plastic bag containing 19 capsules of “a grayish white powdery substance” was found in the squad car after Brown was processed at the jail, the police report states. Officers noted in the report that Brown had ducked out of view several times after being granted permission to stretch out in the back seat.
The report noted that the capsules were “consistent with how heroin is packaged for street sale.”
The officers also said they made two prior arrests that evening and checked the cruiser for contraband after each arrest and transport to the jail.
Brown was driving a vehicle that the officers said fit a description of a car that was used to flee the scene of a shooting that night on nearby Daytona Parkway. Jonathan Taylor, 19, died in that shooting.
Brown is not considered a suspect in the shooting.
Brown did not respond to officers when they turned on their emergency lights and siren, according to the report. Instead, he slowed to about 10 mph, drove through two stop signs and pulled into the driveway of 2605 Auburn Ave.
Brown then refused orders to lie on the ground, and officers noted they had to “assist him to the ground.”
The vehicle that Brown was driving belonged to Melvin Taylor of the Auburn residence. Brown did not have a valid operator’s license and also had an active license suspension.
Brown sat on the end of Dunbar’s bench and did not play during a 72-67 defeat of Thurgood Marshall on Sunday at UD Arena. Dunbar is at Belmont on Friday.
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