WAYNESBORO ,PA : Stolen SUV crashes into car on July, Friday 7th 2017

A vehicle eluded Waynesboro Police following an alleged domestic altercation, crashed into another vehicle and a home on North Grant Street early Friday morning.

The pursuit began in the parking lot of the Waynesboro Police Department shortly before 7 a.m. where police say a verbal altercation between 27-year-old Peter Michael Smith of Hagerstown, the driver of a stolen black Chevy Tahoe and his ex-girlfriend took place.

As he was approached by a police officer, Smith fled the scene in an SUV possessing Maryland tags westbound in the wrong direction of a one-way street on Alley No. 1.

After traveling several blocks, the SUV collided with a car heading northbound on North Grant Street before blasting through the bricks of a house at 22 N. Grant St. One person was in the home at the time of crash, but was not injured.

“Police were not in sight of the vehicle when the crash occurred,” said Waynesboro Police Chief Jim Sourbier IV, who added that he wouldn’t exactly call it a chase.

“Police were at least a block behind the SUV while it continued to elude.”

After crashing into the home, police said the driver crawled out of the window of the vehicle and fled the scene. Police pursued the man, who reportedly had a small dark handgun in his possession, in a foot chase.

According to police, the man was taken into custody outside 132 Harrison Ave., but the gun was not located on him at the time.

Police believe the man discarded the gun anywhere between West Main Street and West King Street and North Grant Street and North Franklin Street.


Sourbier said that a search dog assisted in the search for the weapon. As of press time, the gun still wasn’t found and police ask if it is located that it’s not touched and 911 is called immediately.


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Stolen SUV crashes into car