City Police arrested a Plymouth man after he heard and observe two vehicles doing a burnout and began to race down U.S. 30 Saturday morning May 4th.
Just after 3 a.m., Corporal Schieber with the Plymouth Police Department was able to catch up to the vehicles as they turned south onto Oak Drive. A traffic stop was initiated on both vehicles near Markley and Oak Drive.
City officers identified one driver as 22-year-old Anthony Humes. Humes was impaired and taken into custody. He was lodged in the Marshall County Jail for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and operating while intoxicated endangering.
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