BEDFORD TWP. — A Toledo man is in custody after Monroe County sheriff‘s deputies found he was driving a stolen pickup when he was involved in a crash with a tractor-trailer.
Deputies were initially dispatched at 12:53 p.m. Thursday to a traffic crash in the area of northbound U.S. 23 near Sterns Road, a news release from the sheriff’s office said. Deputies Justin Jackson and Steven Warren arrived and found that a Chevrolet Silverado pickup had crashed into a semi, and the driver of the pickup fled the scene eastbound into the Whiteford Stoneco Quarry.
Additional deputies responded to the area and established a perimeter, the release said. After an extensive search, Deputy Jack Hall located the suspect, a 33-year-old man from Toledo, in the area of Consear Road and Summerfield Road. Additional investigation revealed that the suspect had recently stolen the Silverado from a construction site in Toledo.
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The suspect was taken into custody and lodged at the Monroe County Jail on charges of receiving and concealing stolen property and leaving the scene of a traffic crash. His name was not released pending his arraignment in 1st District Court in Monroe.
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The driver of the semi truck was not injured in the crash.
Anyone with further information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office at 734-240-7700.
This article originally appeared on The Monroe News: Driver of pickup arrested after crash with semi in Whiteford Township
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