MAN FLEES FROM DEPUTIES

FOUND HIDING IN A BARBARA ST HOME

Elyria – What started as a routine traffic stop early Tuesday morning by a Lorain County Deputy Sheriff turned into a high speed chase and then a foot pursuit.

Once the driver of a red Pontiac fled from the Deputy he drove to the area of Westway Gardens off Infirmary Road. Once inside the complex the car just kept going around in circles before the driver bailed out of the car and took off on foot. While running from the cops the suspect lost a shoe and continued running with one bare foot.

While searching the area cops learned that the suspect had gone inside a residence on Barbara Street – just a block over from where he bailed out of his car. Police quickly surrounded the home and began pounding on the door with no response. Police continued to order for someone to open the door or they would break it down and send in the K9. With nobody responding an Elyria Police Officer used his body to force the door open. Once opened the K9, Stuka, was positioned at the door, it was at this point that a woman holding a baby approached and asked what was happening and continued to say that the man they were looking for was not in the home.

Officers searched the home and found the man, with one shoe and one bare foot covered in mud, in an upstairs bedroom. He was taken into custody by Sheriff’s Deputies.


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