(Wanatah, IN) - In between patrolling roadways and assisting stranded motorists, La Porte County Sheriff’s deputies found time to track down a wanted fugitive Friday morning.

 

Deputies were performing a welfare check at a residence in the 700 block of Dorothy Lane in Wanatah, where a wanted person had been known to hide out.

 

Determining that the suspect, 26-year-old Beck Serles, had just left the residence, police began searching the neighborhood. Following footprints in the fresh snow, authorities located Serles in the garage of a nearby residence on Lura Lane.

 

Serles was wanted for a misdemeanor theft charge out of Marshall County. Now he faces an additional misdemeanor of resisting arrest, as well as felony charges for possession of a firearm having a prior conviction and residential entry.

 

Serles is being held without bond at the La Porte County Jail. Westville police detectives aided in the investigation.