RESERVE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Turmoil came to Bill Griner's neighborhood Thursday afternoon when police, SWAT members and a suspect’s smashed-up car all swarmed Mt. Troy Road, right in front of his house.
“It’s a pretty dead neighborhood,” Griner said of his Reserve Township home. “It was like three or four police cars sitting right here. Everyone was running around.”
Police tell Channel 11 they attempted to stop the suspect Tirae Bernard's car in Perry South, and it quickly turned into a several-mile police chase from the city, through Spring Garden and ending in Reserve Township.
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During the chase, Bernard hit a police vehicle, authorities said.
Police say Bernard ditched the car on Mt. Troy Road and took off running into nearby woods, the chase prompting three schools, including Spring Hill K-5 and Spring Garden Early Childhood, into lockdown for several minutes.
Neighbors nearby locked their doors, not knowing what was going on.
“My daughter called me because she was living in one of the houses (nearby),” said Tom Rebholz. "She just called and said the SWAT team was down there."
In fact, she lives right next to where Bernard was caught.
Police on scene told Channel 11 a K-9 officer named Big Ben caught Bernard hiding in the back of a garage.
Bernard is due in court next week for charges related to a police chase from 2016. It’s not immediately clear what charges he’ll face related to Thursday’s incident.