Two Charged After Minneapolis Traffic Stop Ends in Fleeing, Cocaine Recovery
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Published: September 12th, 2026.
MINNEAPOLIS: — Two people have been charged following a Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office traffic stop in Minneapolis that allegedly ended with the driver fleeing over a stop stick and a passenger running from officers while dropping bags containing suspected cocaine.
Tobias Antonio Taylor is charged in Hennepin County District Court with felony third-degree possession of a controlled substance, felony fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor fleeing a peace officer by means other than a motor vehicle.
The driver, Jodisha Diane Darrough, is separately charged with felony fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle.
According to criminal complaints filed against the two defendants, Hennepin County sheriff’s officers observed a vehicle traveling eastbound on West Broadway Boulevard at approximately 2:09 a.m. on Sept. 11. Officers reported seeing Taylor, who was a passenger, without a seat belt.
After stopping the vehicle, officers allegedly observed a marijuana roach on Taylor’s lap. Taylor allegedly provided officers with a false name and date of birth and became argumentative after officers told him the name did not exist.
The complaints allege Taylor became combative when officers asked him to exit the vehicle. When officers attempted to open the vehicle door, Taylor allegedly swatted their hands away, put the vehicle into drive and demanded that Darrough flee from officers.
Darrough then allegedly accelerated away, driving over a stop stick in the process. Officers followed the vehicle with emergency lights and sirens until it stopped a short distance later after a tire deflated, according to the complaints.
Taylor allegedly exited the vehicle and continued fleeing on foot. Prosecutors allege that while running, Taylor dropped two bags containing substances that later field-tested positive for cocaine. The bags weighed 11.92 grams and 6.39 grams, according to the complaint.
Officers used a Taser to stop Taylor. Officers also allegedly recovered another 1.07 grams of a substance that field-tested positive for cocaine from the passenger-side floorboard of the vehicle.
Taylor's third-degree drug possession charge alleges he possessed 10 grams or more of a narcotic drug other than heroin or fentanyl, specifically cocaine. The charge carries a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years in prison and/or a fine.
Taylor and Darrough each face a felony fleeing charge carrying a maximum sentence of three years and one day in prison and/or a $5,000 fine. Taylor's additional misdemeanor fleeing charge carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
The charges are allegations, and Taylor and Darrough are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.