A LaFayette man has additional warrants added to already outstanding warrants after a chase out of Floyd County this past weekend.  

According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff's Department, deputies received a "Be on the Lookout" regarding a Ford Explorer traveling out of Floyd County on Highway 27 on Saturday, February 14.  The driver of the vehicle was wanted on unspecified outstanding warrants, according to the report.

A Chattooga County deputy spotted the green 1995 Ford Explorer that was the subject of the BOLO, traveling on Highway 27 in the Gore area.  The Explorer was passing vehicles on the right-hand shoulder of the road in order to outrun the deputy.  The deputy lost site of the Explorer as it went over Taylor's Ridge.  Another deputy was at Pleasant Hill Church Road and never saw the Explorer pass.

Deputies then traveled down Butler Dairy Road, Spring Creek Road and Penn Bridge Road searching for the vehicle.  Someone told a deputy that the vehicle was on West Spring Creek Road headed towards Mountain View Road.  Additional units were called in. Deputies then spotted the Explorer and pulled the vehicle over on East Halls Valley Road.  However, the suspect wasn't driving the vehicle.  Instead a female drive told deputies that the suspect had fled on foot.  The driver cooperated with deputies and took them to the place the suspect had fled.  

The suspect was identified as Melton Andrew Padgett, Jr. of LaFayette who is now facing additional warrants from the chase.