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JACKSON COUNTY — A couple who fled from Jackson County deputies in a stolen pickup with a portable meth lab in back were taken into custody in Alabama with the help of a K-9 unit, said Sheriff Mike Byrd.
Bobby Wayne Rodgers, 33, was injured by a Mobile County deputy’s canine after Rodgers refused to comply with police commands during the capture, Byrd said. Also arrested was Rodgers’ passenger, Rosalie Marie Harmon, 21.
Byrd said deputies were responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle around 5:20 p.m. Saturday on Old Stage Road in southeast Jackson County when the pickup fled. The pickup had been stolen from Mobile County on Halloween night.
The pursuit entered Mobile County on Old Pascagoula Road.
The vehicle crashed into a fence and was driven into a yard, Byrd said. The couple fled and disappeared in the woods.
“They were trying to run with part of the meth lab — the shake-and-bake kind — but dropped it,” said Byrd.
Authorities found stolen property in the truck and Jackson County sheriff’s investigators believe the items link the couple to burglaries in the Forts Lake and Frank Creek communities, the sheriff said.
The couple were taken into custody Sunday in Irvington, Ala. Rodgers, on probation after his recent release from prison in Alabama, was treated for dog bites, Byrd said.
Rodgers and Harmon were taken to the Mobile Metro jail.
Byrd said they will be extradited to Jackson County to face charges that include manufacturing meth.
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