After a South Williamsport police officer saw motorist Enzo Kerwood run a red traffic light at West Central Avenue and Hastings Street about 2:45 a.m. on Sept. 22, the 21-year-old man quickly abandoned his pickup truck and took off running through several yards even as the officer chased after him, yelling “police, stop,” according to affidavit. For about two hours, Kerwood, of 524 Seventh Ave., eluded capture until he returned to his truck and was nabbed by police, the affidavit stated. Kerwood admitted he got “scared” when he saw a police cruiser behind his truck. He had “two baggies” of suspected marijuana in his left front pocket, police said. Kerwood said he had consumed three alcoholic beverages and “smoked weed ‘some hours before,'” the affidavit stated. Kerwood was taken before District Judge Gary Whiteman and arraigned on felony fleeing police, evading arrest, DUI, possession of marijuana and two summary offenses. He was released on $15,000 bail.

In another case, Vance Howard, 19, of Selinsgrove, was locked up on a felony charge of fleeing police and numerous summary violations following a high-speed pursuit with Lycoming Regional police while he operating “a street bike” that reached speeds in excess of 100 mph on Route 220 in Porter, Piatt and Woodward townships about 3:45 a.m. on Aug. 25. The officer terminated his involvement in the pursuit out of safety concerns, but eventually was able to identify Howard as the alleged operator, police said. Howard had been involved hours earlier in a domestic disturbance with his girlfriend on Route 414, and it was reported he had fled the scene on “a street bike,” police said. When spotted on the bike, he was wearing the same set of clothes he had been wearing during the disturbance, police said. Arraigned before District Denise Dieter on Sept. 13, Howard was initially jailed, but has since been released on $85,000 bail. He will have a preliminary hearing later this week.