UPDATE @ 11:05 p.m.: One person was apprehended shortly after the stolen car crashed on Benson Drive in Dayton earlier this evening and authorities are looking for three others believed to have been in that car, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said in a statement released a few minutes ago.
According to the sheriff’s office, sheriff’s detectives spotted the vehicle just after 8:30 p.m. and notified regional county dispatch as well as any marked police or sheriff’s cruisers in the area.
A marked sheriff’s cruiser began following the white Volkswagen Golf, taken in a strong arm robbery in Trotwood on Sunday night, and attempted to stop it on Philadelphia Drive at Hillcrest Avenue. The driver continued at high speed and the deputy “discontinued his attempt to stop the vehicle” as it continued on Philadelphia and north onto Salem Avenue.
The deputy last saw the car head south on Benson and came upon the wrecked vehicle in the yard of a home near Wicklow Place. Deputies made the one arrest a short time later, according to the statement.
The information and suspect have been turned over to Trotwood police, according to the sheriff’s office.
UPDATE @ 9:30 p.m.
The car that was crashed tonight on Benson Drive in Dayton was stolen in Trotwood on Sunday night, Montgomery County sheriff’s Sgt. Troy Bodine confirmed.
He said a sheriff’s detective with the Harrison Twp. substation spotted the white Volkswagen Golf today and found it in the yard, abandoned, tonight.
Trotwood police are on scene now as the search for suspects continues.
FIRST REPORT
Police and deputies are searching for as many as three people who ran off after crashing a car believed to have been stolen on Sunday night.
A white Volkswagen Golf was driven into the yard of a home on Benson Drive, near Wicklow Place, about 8:45 p.m.
Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies had been following the car south on Salem Avenue when the driver turned onto Benson and continued south, we’re told.
We’re also told that witnesses have told police and deputies that at least three people got out of the car and took off running.
A K-9 unit has been brought to the crash scene and officers are searching the neighborhood in the area of Benson, Otterbein Avenue, Harvard Boulevard and Wicklow Place.
We’re working to find out more about the circumstances involving the car and what information deputies used to locate and follow the car.
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