Monday, December 18, 2017
HERMITAGE, PA. — Gabriel A. Queener, 27, of Youngstown, is facing a host of charges in Mercer County District Court, after police in Hermitage say he fled from them after a Hermitage officer tried to make a traffic stop on his car at 7:45 p.m. Sunday.
Queener is reported to have fled from the 3000 block of South Hermitage Road into Wheatland and Shenango Township and then to Mercer-West Middlesex Road. Shenango Township police joined the pursuit. The Ford Taurus Queener was driving crashed into an oncoming vehicle near the Ohio line. Both vehicles were damaged.
The occupants of the other vehicle were taken by ambulance to an area hospital, where they were in stable condition, Hermitage police said.
Queener fled on foot into Ohio, where troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol found Queener at about 2:20 a.m. hiding in Western Reserve Transit Authority bus parked in the Hubbard Township/Masury area.
Queener was taken to a hospital by ambulance because of face injury.
He admitted to fleeing police because he didn’t have a driver’s license and thought he had an arrest warrant, Hermitage police said.
He also admitted he was smoking marijuana at the time Hermitage police tried to stop him.