A Lake Ariel man driving 76 mph in a 25 mph zone fled state police during a Friday traffic stop before driving into the Lackawanna River, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Thomas Flood faces a felony charge of eluding law enforcement officers, in addition to numerous misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, Dunmore state police were on patrol just after midnight on Friday when they spotted Flood, 22, in a Dodge pickup driving erratically on Marshwood Road near Keystone Industrial Park.<\/p>\n
Troopers noted Flood repeatedly crossed the center line and westbound fog line. They also noted his truck had a broken driver-side brake light.<\/p>\n
Troopers activated their lights and sirens in an effort to stop Flood, but instead he accelerated, running several stop signs on Marshwood Road and continuing to swerve across the roadway.<\/p>\n
With state police in pursuit, Flood continued onto Sanderson Street. When the street came to a dead end, he crossed a dike and drove down an embankment into the Lackawanna River, troopers said.<\/p>\n
With his pickup undrivable, Flood exited his vehicle and took off on foot across the river.<\/p>\n
Troopers caught up with Flood, directing him get on the ground and put his hands behind his back, but he originally failed to comply with their commands.<\/p>\n
Flood eventually dropped to his hands and knees but refused to put his hands behind his back, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Troopers stunned him and were able to take him into custody.<\/p>\n
Police noted that Flood\u2019s eyes were bloodshot and he smelled of alcohol.<\/p>\n
He admitted he had been at a bar and was drunk. He told troopers he fled because he was on parole and didn\u2019t want to go back to jail.<\/p>\n
His vehicle bore a fraudulent inspection sticker and he did not have valid insurance, troopers said.<\/p>\n
He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on Aug. 20 before District Judge Alyce Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lake Ariel man driving 76 mph in a 25 mph zone fled state police during a Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,3104],"class_list":["post-262870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-throop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262870","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=262870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}