A Tyrone man was caught by police in Logan Township after he attempted to flee them yesterday afternoon.
\nPolice Chief Ron Heller said 25-year-old James D. Potts of 385 Holland Road, Tyrone was spotted in a vehicle by an off-duty state police officer on East Sixth Avenue at 12:21 p.m. Heller said the off-duty officer knew of warrants against Potts and he contacted 911. Logan police then responded to the call.
\nHeller said Potts was headed into Greenwood when police encountered him. Heller explained a police vehicle displayed its emergency lights behind Potts\u2019 vehicle in an attempt to have him pull his vehicle over to the side of the road.
\nPotts then allegedly fled police on South Dartmouth Lane. He crossed over Pleasant Valley Boulevard and stopped his vehicle in a driveway on Notre Dame Road.
\nHeller said Potts then fled on foot and was apprehended by officers \u201cseveral doors down\u201d from where he left his vehicle. Heller said there was a female passenger in the vehicle Potts was driving. The unidentified passenger was not charged in the incident.
\nAfter his capture, Potts was placed in Blair County Prison on a bench warrant. He is facing numerous charges stemming from yesterday\u2019s incident. Heller said his department plans to charge Potts with fleeing and attempting to allude, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and traffic violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Tyrone man was caught by police in Logan Township after he attempted to flee them yesterday afternoon. Police Chief Ron Heller said 25-year-old James D. Potts of 385 Holland Road, Tyrone was spotted in a vehicle by an off-duty state police officer on East Sixth Avenue at 12:21 p.m. Heller said the off-duty officer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}