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Tyrone teen faces charges after chase

Stimer allegedly fled police at ‘high rate of speed’

TYRONE — A Tyrone teen faces more than a dozen criminal charges, including two felonies, after leading police on a car chase, which ended in a crash.

Jacob C. Stimer, 19, of 2105 Glad Ave., allegedly drove his brother’s car, a silver Mercury Cougar, while speeding away from Tyrone Borough Police.

Police noticed Stimer about 3:19 a.m. Thursday, when he squealed the vehicle’s tires as he sped from Adams Avenue near its intersection with Oak Street, according to a criminal complaint.

The vehicle also failed to halt at a stop sign, police said.

According to the complaint, Stimer drove recklessly as he traveled through an S-curve, traveling into the opposing lane.

That behavior prompted an officer, driving an unmarked car, to turn on his emergency lights and attempt a traffic stop.

The officer said he lost sight of the vehicle as it fled at a “high rate of speed,” but he continued traveling Adams Avenue in hopes of catching up.

He eventually traveled onto Back Vail Road, where he struck “low-hanging” utility wires with his patrol car.

The officer also “noticed there was debris on the roadway” at that time, according to the complaint.

“I then saw the silver car in the middle of the oncoming lane, situated sideways across the lane with the hood of the car facing east,” the officer wrote.

The car was heavily damaged, with smoke and steam coming from under the hood, and the passenger-side door was left open, police said.

The officer said he could hear rustling in a nearby patch of woods and called in additional police and dogs to conduct a search.

A passerby gave responders a tip about the vehicle’s occupants, telling them that Stimer had been driving and his passenger was a 17-year-old boy, according to the complaint

The 17-year-old was later found at Tyrone Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion and broken nose as a result of the accident.

Police said the boy also confirmed that Stimer was driving the vehicle and that he likely fled to a relative’s house.

According to the complaint, police then visited that relative’s house, and they were greeted by Stimer.

“When Stimer answered the door, he hung his head and said, ‘It was me; I was dumb,'” the complaint reads.

Online court documents show Stimer faces two felony counts of fleeing police, as well as two misdemeanor counts of fleeing police and causing an accident. He also faces more than a dozen summary charges.

Stimer was arraigned Monday morning, and he is to appear for a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Aug. 7, online court documents show. He was released on $20,000 unsecured bail.

Mirror Staff Writer Sean Sauro is at 946-7535.

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