A jeep crashed into a water filled ditch during a pursuit with Indiana State Police Monday night.

Around 10 p.m. on May 16, 2022, state troopers say the driver of a gray 2017 Jeep commit a moving violation along northbound State Road 15 south of Leesburg, Indiana. Officers pulled over the jeep near the intersection of SR 15 and Levi Lee Road. When troopers approached the car, the driver sped off northbound.

The driver, later identified as Austin Zarse, 27, of Leesburg, led state police on a chase that went off road after he started driving his car through a field. The chase continued until he drove his jeep into an embankment that was filled with water.

His car stopped working and Zarse was arrested. Before police took him into custody, he was dumping bags of an unknown substance into the water.

Zarse was arrested for resisting law enforcement, obstruction of justice, and reckless driving.