A Lakeland teen involved in a 2013 cyberbullying suicide case is behind bars in the Polk County Jail.
Arrest affidavits said Katelyn Candice Roman, 18, was arrested Tuesday after a 29-year-old man she was riding with led Polk County sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase in a stolen car.
The affidavit showed Roman already had a warrant for failure to appear.
The driver of the vehicle, Kenneth Alexander, is accused of putting the vehicle they were in into reverse and rammed a patrol car, deputies said. Then he hit an unoccupied vehicle before leaving the scene.
Arrest affidavits said speeds during the chase reached up to 100 mph before a crash ended it.
A glass pipe and a crystal-like substance were found inside the vehicle, deputies said. The substance tested positive for methamphetamine during a field test, arrest reports showed.
Roman was charged with possession of meth, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting officer without violence.
Roman and Guadalupe Shaw were arrested when they were teenagers in 2013 on aggravated stalking charges. They were accused of cyber stalking and harassing a 12-year-old girl who committed suicide by jumping off an abandoned cement silo.
Shaw and Roman’s charges were cleared a month after their arrests.
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