South Williamsport motorist locked up following lengthy pursuit
While South Williamsport police were attempting to question Solomon Reagan about damaging a neighbor’s apartment door at the Lakeview Apartments at 934 Main St. in the borough about 9 p.m. on Dec. 8, the 22-year-old man made an obscenity remark, jumped in the driver’s seat of a Ford Edge and took off, it was alleged in an affidavit.
The officer got in his cruiser and pursued Reagan south on Route 15 for nearly 24 miles. During the pursuit, Reagan “ran many vehicles off the road, passed a tractor-trailer truck by using the shoulder of the highway while failing to yield to the cruiser’s emergency lights and siren,” the court document stated. Reagan traveled at speeds in excess of 115 mph, police said.
State police from the Milton barracks assisted in the pursuit and got Reagan stopped only by “utilizing spike strips and deploying a pit maneuver” that forces an fleeing driver to spin out and stop, the affidavit stated.
Reagan, whose last known address was the Lakeview Apartments, was arraigned hours later before District Judge Gary Whiteman on felony fleeing police, recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct. Police allege he punched a neighbor’s door multiple times while stating he was “going to (expletive) this guy up.” Reagan, whose has since waived his preliminary hearing, was jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail.