<p>A man who police said shot at officers last year and had been wanted on drug charges has been sentenced to eight years in prison.</p>
<p>Jordan Fulkerson, 19, 197 Mystic Spring Drive, Greenwood, pleaded guilty in July to resisting law enforcement, a Level 6 felony, and was sentenced to a year in prison for a December incident where officers said he shot at them.</p>
<p>He also has pleaded guilty to dealing in methamphetamine, a Level 4 felony, conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine, a Level 5 felony and two counts of dealing in marijuana, a misdemeanor.</p>
<p>This week, Johnson Circuit Court Judge Andrew Roesener accepted a fixed sentencing agreement of seven years in prison for dealing in methamphetamine, two years for conspiracy to deal methamphetamine and a year for dealing marijuana.</p>
<p>He will serve those sentences concurrently, meaning his total sentence is seven years. That sentence will be served after the one-year sentence on the felony conviction for resisting police from the December incident.</p>
<p>Fulkerson can petition for an early release if he completes the Recovery While Intoxicated program in prison and serves at least two years of his sentence, according to court documents.</p>
<p>The drug charges stem from incidents in 2018.</p>
<p>For example, Fulkerson was one of 10 people arrested during a police investigation at a Center Grove area home in connection with a drug deal in September 2018.</p>
<p>He was arrested for dealing methamphetamine and marijuana in a drug round up in November.</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s office agreed to the sentence since it involved prison time. Fulkerson initially faced between two to 12 years for the drug charges, Prosecutor Joe Villanueva said.</p>
<p>“There has been such a focus on the opioid crisis lately that people sometimes forget that drugs like methamphetamine are still out there killing people and decimating families. We will always strive to protect our community from people who infect it with this poison by putting them in prison, not on probation,” he said.</p>
<p>The resisting law enforcement charge is due to his role in a police-action shooting in December 2018.</p>
<p>Both Carter Kappel and Fulkerson had warrants out for their arrests when they led police on a brief car chase through New Whiteland, reaching speeds of more than 60 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood southwest of U.S. 31 and Tracy Road.</p>
<p>Once the car turned into a neighborhood, on Deville Place, police watched as Fulkerson jumped out of the car and took off running, but they did not notice Kappel had also escaped on foot, they said.</p>
<p>Officers realized the car was unoccupied once it ran over a street sign and into a yard, according to court documents.</p>
<p>Officers, still in their patrol cars, saw a flash of light from a gun being fired, court documents said. They did not hear the shot due to their police sirens blaring. As the officer started to get out of his vehicle, Fulkerson turned around and held the pistol up but did not fire it, according to a police accounting of the incident.</p>
<p>Fulkerson took off running, jumped a fence and disappeared, police said.</p>
<p>Police set up a perimeter, but even with K9s, drones and a helicopter, were unable to find the two, court documents said. Police caught Fulkerson later that day in the neighborhood after Kappel was shot by police several times.</p>
<p>Police searched the car later and found methamphetamine, marijuana, a glass smoking device and two boxes of bullets.</p>
<p>The Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office ruled that the police officers were within their rights to fire their weapons, according to a report completed by the office earlier this year.</p>
<p>Kappel was a juvenile at the time of the crime, but was tried as an adult. He was sentenced to about a year and a half in prison for his role in the crimes.</p>
