TROY — An armed robbery led to a police chase that crossed a county line and ended in a crash on Interstate 75 Thursday morning.
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The chase started shortly before 11 a.m. in Montgomery County.
A spokesperson for Dayton Police said it stemmed from a robbery complaint on Five Oaks Avenue, where a person’s vehicle was taken at gunpoint before 10 a.m. this morning.
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The chase, which spanned over 20 miles, started on surface streets in Dayton after the stolen vehicle was spotted along Riverside Drive. The suspect vehicle ended up getting onto northbound I-75 and wouldn’t stop for police.
Cameras from the Ohio Department of Transportation showed at least a dozen officers from multiple jurisdictions chasing the vehicle up I-75.
Initial emergency scanner traffic reported the chase surpassing 100 mph at least twice.
The chase crossed into Miami County, eventually ending in a crash after an officer did a Precision Immobilization Technique, otherwise known as a PIT Maneuver, on the vehicle near State Route 41 in Troy.
The suspect was taken into custody.
No injuries were reported.
The crash caused lane closures, but the interstate fully reopened around 1 p.m.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, witnesses like Marcia Russell described seeing the chase.
“I’ve seen a lot,” Russell, who’s from Indian Lake, said. “This is a first for a daytime chase the way it happened.”
Russell said she was stuck in traffic for 50 minutes after the crash.
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