DARLINGTON — A complaint to the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office about an abandoned vehicle on a rural Darlington road led to the arrest of the owner on drug charges.

Marcus P. Gilberts Jr., 29, Darlington, was jailed on felony charges of possessing cocaine and methamphetamine with intent to deliver.

He also faces misdemeanor charges of possessing drug paraphernalia, THC and an illegally obtained prescription and carrying a concealed knife, along with additional felony charges of resisting arrest causing substantial bodily harm or soft tissue injury and possessing paraphernalia to produce or store methamphetamine.

A deputy responded shortly after 6 p.m. Dec. 14 to Short Cut Road, Town of Darlington, and located a vehicle later determined to belong to Gilberts.

“We got this call that there’s this vehicle parked in the middle of the road,” Sheriff Reg Gill said. It had apparently broken down and “was on Short Cut Road parked in the middle of the road and just left there ... literally in the middle of the road.”

A Darlington police officer reported seeing Gilberts walk into one of the bars in town, so deputies went to the bar to find him.

Gilberts “took off running,” with officers chasing after him, and resisted arrest to the point of needing to be tackled to the ground, Gill said. In the process a deputy got “banged up a bit” and sustained a minor hand injury.

Gilberts’ cash bond is set at $2,000 with conditions including no drinking or going into bars or liquor stores and not leaving the state of Wisconsin. He’s due back in court for a preliminary hearing Feb. 9.