UPDATE: Man Police Saved from Fiery Car Crash Jailed on LSD Charges

Updated at 5:45 p.m.

Urbandale police officers saw drugs in plain view on March 7 when they went to the home of an Urbandale man to inform relatives that Ian Joseph Wasekuk, 19, had nearly died after crashing his car while "doing doughnuts" on a slick church parking lot across the street.

The car caught fire and Wasekuk was rescued by a police officer, who risked his own life when he pulled the unconscious Urbandale man from his vehicle.

Urbandale Police spokesman Randy Peterson said no one answered the door, but when they looked in the window at a lighted room, "they could see marijuana and other drug paraphernalia in plain sight."

The Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement (MINE) task force was called, a search warrant was obtained and a search warrant for the residence was executed, Peterson said. On April 11, Wasekuk was arrested for LSD and other drug charges, and was booked at the Polk County Jail, where he remains on $110,000 cash bond.

Peterson said Wasekuk was not immediately tested for drug use, as officers were more concerned with saving his life.

"Their main goal was to keep him alive," Peterson said. "He was seconds away from passing away."

Earlier, Patch reported:

The 19-year-old man who was saved from a fiery car crash by an Urbandale police officer earlier this year remains in the Polk County Jail on $110,000 bond on drug charges, including one on intent to deliver LSD.

Ian Joseph Wasekuk, 19, was arrested on April 11, according to Polk County Jail records.

In March, Urbandale Police Officer Zac McDowell and an Iowa State University student who was doing a ride-along, Nick Schroeder, pulled an unconscious Wasekuk from the burning car after he had crashed it while “doing doughnuts” in the parking lot of the Urbandale Baptist Church, 6501 Aurora Ave.

Watch the video of dramatic rescue on Patch.

Specific charges against Wasekuk are:

• Possession with intent to deliver Schedule I LSD ($100,000 bond)
• Possession with intent to deliver marijuana, a schedule I ($5,000 bond)
• Failure to affix required drug tax stamp ($5,000 bond)

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