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From State Police:
The suspect has been located and is been treated medically for injuries sustained in the apparent crash. He will then be lodged in York County Detention Facility for unrelated warrants. Charges stemming from today’s incident are pending. He is 23 years of age from Stewartstown, PA.
No further information is being released at this time as the investigation is on-going.
The search is on in York County for a man wanted locally and out of South Carolina.
It all started when he raced through a speed trap, but it led to a crash, and even a pot bust. Police are still looking for that man tonight.
Jason Lowery of Winterstown, York County, lives at the center of the search, “The next thing I heard was a squeal and boom. Then, the next thing you know someone is going through a cornfield with the cops going in behind him.”
Lowery had a front seat to the crash, subsequent police search, and the eventual unrelated pot bust.
Just after 8 am a driver in a Dodge Dakota sped through an enforcement zone near Country Club Road and Winterstown Road in North Hopewell Township.
The brief chase ended when the suspect crashed into a red truck driven by 50-year-old William Dennis of Brogue.
The suspect took off into a cornfield launching a state police search of the largely rural area.
While in the air police did not find their suspect, but did find 11 pot plants growing in a corn field off nearby Acorn Road.
The search was called off around 10 am leaving neighbors, like Lowery, on edge. “You have kids here, we have a little pool outside, I coach girls softball, 12 and under,” said Lowerty. “I care about them as family, scares me he could be around here.”
Again police are looking for the man. The South Carolina warrant is for having weapons on school property.
William Dennis the driver who was hit has minor injuries. No charges have been filed yet related to those 11 pot plants.
All information is from the PA State Police:
The operator of the Suzuki Equator is identified as William Eugene Dennis, aged 50 from Brogue, PA. He was wearing his seatbelt. In addition to his vehicle’s front air bags deploying, the side air bags did as well. His injury is now believed to be minor in nature and is believed to still be at York Hospital.
The investigation continues and the suspect’s name is not being released at this time
On Tuesday just after 8 a.m. the York Area regional police were conducting a speed enforcement detail on Rt. 24 in the area of Country Club Rd, Windsor Twp, York Co. A male operating a blue colored Dodge Dakota Sport was traveling southbound and came thru the enforcement zone at 55 in a posted 35 zone. The driver increased his speed and continued southbound. Police pulled out and attempted to catch up-at this point it was not an active police chase in the sense that the police were not directly behind him in close proximity.
The Dodge pick-up crested a hill just south of List Rd and impacted a northbound Suzuki Equator pick-up. The Suzuki driver is from Brogue, PA. Major crush damage and air bag deployment to both vehicles. The Suzuki’s left front was hit by the dodge right front. The driver of the dodge fled into a cornfield. The Suzuki driver was taken to York hospital with moderate injuries.
The Dodge is wanted in connection with an unauthorized use out of PSP Freckville.
York regional K-9, PsP aviation and troopers were actively searching for the fleeing driver. But that search has now been called off, police are now in the process of obtaining a warrant.
A national crime information center check of the suspect reveals that he is believed to be wanted out of South Carolina for carrying a weapon on school property, and two local warrants.
While conducting the search for the suspect state police aviation pilots located 11 freshly planted marijuana plants in a cornfield off Apple Street in Winterstown Boro, York County.
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