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Mark James Ramirez (left) and Amanda Lowder Robinson (Credit: DCSO booking photos) Two people were arrested in DeSoto County after deputies were injured during a traffic stop. The sheriff’s office said deputies pulled over a black pickup truck with an attached trailer Wednesday in the area of SE Ami Drive. A narcotics K-9 alerted to the presence of drugs and the truck’s occupants were removed so the truck could be searched. Methamphetamine and a handgun were found, and the driver, Mark James Ramirez, 49, was arrested. The passenger, Amanda Lowder Robinson, 40, gave deputies a false name of “Candace Ramirez” while she was being detained without handcuffs. The sheriff’s office said during a search of Robinson, she began to resist and was able to get back into the truck. She took off while deputies were still holding on to her, so they released her and she took off. As Robinson was fleeing, she threw additional narcotics out of the truck, DCSO said, and multiple DCSO units pursued her until she crashed on a dead-end road. DCSO said multiple deputies suffered non- life-threatening injuries as a result of Robinson’s actions. Robinson, who has an extensive criminal history, is facing charges of aggravated fleeing to elude law enforcement with serious bodily injury; battery on a law enforcement officer; resisting officer with violence; trafficking in methamphetamine; providing false identification to law enforcement; tampering with evidence; driving while license suspended and possession of drug paraphernali. She remains in the DeSoto County Jail without bond. Ramirez is facing charges of possession of a controlled substance (meth), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of drug paraphernalia. He remains in the DeSoto County Jail on $9,500 bail. DCSO said both also have outstanding warrants from other counties.