A Democrat campaigning for state Senate in Indiana was charged with cocaine possession and resisting law enforcement after a confrontation with police officers on Sunday, with court documents noting he appeared high on drugs.
Andrew Dezelan, 39, is seeking the Democratic nomination for Senate District 31 in an upcoming primary, but he’s now facing charges after police allegedly found cocaine in his car, according to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis.
The incident took place about 8 p.m. in Fishers, a city about 30 miles north of Indianapolis, when Fishers police responded to a person “soliciting a neighborhood,” the station reported.
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Officers found Dezelan in his car at the neighborhood clubhouse.
When the responding officer asked him why he was there,
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