Ron Wilkins

rwilkins@jconline.com

Daryn McCauley might have thought he could outrun the police Friday night. He couldn’t.

Lafayette officers were at Stonecrest Apartments around 18th and Union Streets around 10 p.m. after someone reported smelling marijuana. While officers were outside, McCauley, 28, strolled by and nearly bumped into one of the officers, according to police.

When officers asked him his name, he gave them a fake name, police said. When they told him the name didn’t match, he told them his real name, then took off running towards 18th Street.

As McCauley slid down a hill near 18th Street, an officer chasing him noticed McCauley dropped a handgun, police said. The officer picked up the gun and continued to run after McCauley, who had a second handgun, which police said he ditched somewhere in the weeds and trees along 18th Street.

Police caught McCauley on 18th Street, then closed the road between Murdock Park and Union Street to look for the discarded sidearm, which they found. One of the two guns was stolen out of Indianapolis, police said.

McCauley went to jail on preliminary charges of felony possession of a handgun, resisting law enforcement resulting in injury, possession of stolen property and possession of marijuana.

As of Monday afternoon, McCauley remained incarcerated at the Tippecanoe County Jail in lieu of a $5,000 surety bond and a $1,000 cash bond, according to jail officers.