Man turns himself into police
State police said an 18-year-old Uniontown man who allegedly hit two troopers with a car he and his father had stolen turned himself in to authorities Thursday afternoon. Monty William Jackson II was charged with four counts each of aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy and single counts of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property before Magisterial District Judge Randy Abraham.
Jackson and his father, Monty Jackson, led police on a chase that ended with two troopers hit by the stolen vehicle, a cruiser damaged from a collision and a mobile home knocked off its moorings.
According to the criminal complaint filed by trooper Timothy C. Knapp, troopers Nathan Lieberum and William Dowling were headed to a North Union Township home to take a report of a stolen vehicle Wednesday morning, when the officers encountered Monty Jackson II operating the car owned by Sandra Koterla.
The troopers pursued the car on Hopwood-Coolspring Road, onto Route 40 and then to the Hi-To Bar on Hi-To Road where the stolen car came to rest against the bar, police said.
After the car came to a stop, the troopers exited their cruiser and walked toward the stolen vehicle, Knapp wrote.
According to Knapp, Monty Jackson II then put the car into reverse and struck Dowling in the left leg with the passenger door and Lieberum in the right leg with the driver’s side fender.
Police said Jackson II then continued to back the stolen Plymouth sedan into a police cruiser occupied by troopers Mike Irwin and Jeffrey Schaffer.
After striking the cruiser, police said Jackson II drove around the bar and crashed the car into a mobile home owned by Allan Leonard.
The crash knocked the mobile home off its blocks, Knapp said.
Jackson tried to flee on foot, but Lieberum was able to catch him where he kicked Lieberum in the leg and punched him, police said.
Lieberum was able to subdue Jackson and take him into custody.
He was arraigned and lodged in Fayette County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bond.
Monty Jackson II turned himself in to authorities Thursday afternoon.