A Moon Township U.S. Postal Service worker is accused of stealing a mail truck and leading police on a wrong-way chase, according to reports from WPXI and KDKA.
On Sunday afternoon, Dan Freeman was driving to Bridgeville after camping in Virginia with friends when, around 1:30 p.m., he witnessed something unusual on I-79 northbound in Waynesburg, Greene County, according to“I can see lights on either side of the highway, and I’m like oh that’s not good,” Freeman said to the news outlet.
“People started pulling over on the shoulder and I was going to go around the truck in front of me and as I’m going around, I see a mail truck coming up the center of the highway at me,” he said. Freeman said he managed to avoid the mail truck, which was closely followed by a state trooper squad car.State police reported that the truck in question had been stolen from Moon Township. Eventually, they were able to catch up to the driver, who led police on a 2-mile chase.
He was later taken into custody and identified as 35-year-old Tyler Floro, a USPS employee who had refused to return the truck Sunday afternoon.
“It was determined that he was under the influence of drugs and was in possession of drug paraphernalia. While in police custody he did assault an officer and was charged with aggravated assault for that, fleeing and eluding and multiple other charges related to his offenses,” Trooper Kalee Barnhart said.
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