A 22-year-old Muhlenberg Township man was arrested Sunday evening after allegedly fleeing from Pennsylvania State Police during a high-speed pursuit that began on Route 222 in Bern Township and ended in Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n
According to Pennsylvania State Police, troopers were conducting radar enforcement on U.S. Route 222 North near the Schuylkill River in Bern Township around 7 p.m. on May 4 when they observed two vehicles allegedly racing.<\/p>\n
Police said the vehicles, a Ford Explorer and a black 2009 Mercedes-Benz C300, were clocked traveling 104 mph in a posted 55 mph zone.<\/p>\n
Troopers said the driver of the Ford Explorer pulled over after emergency lights were activated, but the Mercedes allegedly failed to stop and fled from marked patrol vehicles.<\/p>\n
State police said troopers pursued the Mercedes into Muhlenberg Township, where the driver allegedly attempted to evade officers by making various turns and disregarding traffic control devices.<\/p>\n
The pursuit ended when the driver stopped in traffic and surrendered without incident, according to police.<\/p>\n
Muhlenberg Township Police Department assisted state troopers during the incident.<\/p>\n
State police identified the arrestee only as a 22-year-old man from Muhlenberg Township. Charges include fleeing and eluding police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old Muhlenberg Township man was arrested Sunday evening after allegedly fleeing from Pennsylvania State Police during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-185952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}