BLOOMFIELD WOMAN JAILED ON METH CHARGES

BLOOMFIELD -- The pursuit and arrest of a father-and-son pair from Campbell Saturday lead local law enforcement personnel to a Bloomfield woman who was jailed on drug charges.

Stoddard County Sheriff Steve Fish said that the chase of Bruce Dean Cole, 46, and his 18-year-old son, Bruce Lee Cole, began when sheriff's deputies and the Missouri State Highway Patrol were investigating a suspicious vehicle. When officers tried to stop the vehicle south of Bloomfield, the driver refused, turned around and headed back into Bloomfield at a high rate of speed.

With law enforcement personnel in pursuit, the driver lost control of the vehicle and wrecked at the intersection of Prairie Street and Bloomfield Avenue.

The pair fled from the vehicle with police giving chase.

The younger Cole -- who had been driving -- was captured three blocks from the car. His father was caught soon after by Boris, the sheriff's department's drug dog, the sheriff said.

Based on the follow-up investigation, law enforcement personnel arrested Angela Sue Gray, 28, of Bloomfield, who was charged with possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. She was booked into the county jail on a bond of $25,000 cash only.

Bruce Lee Cole was charged with felony possession of drug paraphernalia and was being held in the county jail on a bond of $25,000 cash only. He also faces several traffic violations, including failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, careless and imprudent driving and resisting arrest by fleeing.

Bruce Dean Cole has been charged with felony possession of drug paraphernalia and was booked into the jail on a bond of $50,000 cash only. He also was named in warrants issued by Campbell and Fredericktown.