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Noah haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Darlington Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that twenty-seven-year-old Micah Ronald Barnes of Pittsburgh was arrested after a vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash yesterday afternoon in Darlington Township. This happened at 2:38 p.m. along the 100 block of Taggert Road. Before the crash occurred, Barnes escaped police units from East Palestine in a vehicle as officers tried to conduct a traffic stop in Ohio before he traveled to Beaver County. After losing control on the wet roads there, Barnes crashed that vehicle into a tree and then ran away on foot. Barnes was ultimately located and was seen missing one shoe near East Palestine Road and patrol units from PSP Beaver took him into custody. Barnes was taken to the Beaver County Jail to be arraigned on criminal charges of fleeing and eluding a police officer, accidents involving damage to unattended vehicle or property, recklessly endangering another person, evading arrest or fleeing on foot, reckless driving, careless driving, and multiple traffic offenses. According to the East Palestine Police Department, Barnes and 24-year-old Jaiden Curtis-Tillman, also of Pittsburgh, were both arrested after a chase and crash during a suspected drug delivery. Curtis-Tillman is being held in the Columbiana County Jail and he is charged with obstructing official business. Curtis-Tillman also escpaed on foot in an effort to escape arrest and he was taken into custody after he was removed from the vehicle, even though Barnes was able to escape before his arrest. A drone was also utilized by the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office as one of the methods to find Barnes.