Slow-moving pursuit called off when suspect enters school zone, police say

Suspect allegedly tossed drugs from car window during pursuit that went from Allentown to South Whitehall.


Allentown police called off a slow-moving pursuit of a drug suspect Thursday afternoon after the suspect drove into a school zone in South Whitehall Township, police said.

Allentown police said they were involved in a drug investigation at 1 p.m. at 12th Street and Sumner Avenue and followed a car. Police tried to stop the car at 14th and Tilghman streets, but the driver ignored commands, police said.

The car continued onto Cedar Crest Boulevard and went on Route 22 west, police said. State police and South Whitehall police assisted once the car got on the highway, Allentown police Capt. Glen Dorney said. He said the car was not going "excessively fast" or committing many traffic violations.

According to police radio reports, occupants of the car dumped drugs out of the window as the car drove off.

The driver got onto Route 309 north and headed toward Parkland High School, so the pursuit was called off, Dorney said.

Manuel Gamiz Jr.

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