Tractor-Trailer Driver Arrested For Fleeing Police, Traveling In Wrong Direction On I-95

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EDGEWOOD, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland State Police announced Monday that a tractor-trailer operator has been arrested aft helium traveled successful the incorrect absorption portion fleeing from constabulary connected I-95.

Maurice Cooper, 37, of Haverhill, Florida was taken into custody without incident. He faces attempted second-degree murder, archetypal and second-degree assault, battle of a instrumentality enforcement officer, theft and different related postulation charges.

Officials said conscionable earlier 12:30 p.m., troopers responded to the Maryland House Travel Plaza for a reported theft. There, they recovered a unfortunate who told constabulary his overgarment and keys were stolen portion helium was wrong the question plaza. The unfortunate notified constabulary the fishy was the operator of a circumstantial tractor-trailer.

Police were advised of a tractor exiting the question plaza connected the incorrect side. The conveyance was traveling southbound successful the northbound lanes of I-95, driving against traffic. Troopers began to travel the tractor-trailer successful an effort to halt the operator portion calling the barrack to petition further assistance.

Officials said aft astir 3 miles, the operator stopped connected the accelerated enarthrosis successful an progressive enactment portion wherever respective road workers were working.

According to authorities, done an unfastened rider broadside window, the trooper made respective verbal requests for the operator to displacement the motortruck into parkland and manus implicit his keys. The operator alternatively accelerated into the northbound lanes of I-95, again traveling southbound against northbound traffic.

As the operator continued to accelerate aft failing to perceive to commands, the trooper was thrown from the motortruck onto the highway. He suffered insignificant injuries and refused aesculapian attraction astatine the scene.

Preliminary accusation shows the operator continued to thrust against postulation for astir 4 much miles and crossed each lanes of northbound I-95 to the dilatory enarthrosis into a operation portion wherever helium made a U-turn and continued northbound connected I-95.

An off-duty constabulary officer, alert of the ongoing incident, followed the tractor-trailer arsenic it exited disconnected of I-95.

A chopper from the Baltimore County Police Department responded to assistance and recovered the tractor-trailer arsenic it pulled into a motel parking batch in Edgewood. The operator past fled connected ft into a wooded country down the motel, according to witnesses.

During the hunt of the area, constabulary on with a K-9 from the Harford County Sheriff’s Office tracked the suspect. The fishy was recovered on the wood enactment and taken into custody.

There were nary reported crashes owed to the tractor-trailer driving against postulation nor were immoderate injuries sustained during the incident.

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Cooper is presently awaiting an archetypal quality earlier a tribunal commissioner successful Harford County.