While responding to that, police received a report at 2 p.m. that two people who matched that description stole a vehicle on nearby Diamond Drive.
The two were identified as juvenile boys, police said, though police later found that a third person was involved in the theft, according to a Clearcreek Twp. police report.
The report said that a video taken from a neighbor’s house on Diamond Drive showed the owners of the vehicle, a man and a woman, confronting the two boys backing their vehicle, a black Acura RDX SUV, out of the driveway, but suddenly the man moves away from the car and pushes the woman to the grass of a house across the street, yelling “he has a gun!”
Soon after, the Acura, as well as the vehicle the suspects had already been driving, a white Kia Forte, were spotted on Ohio 48, the police report said. A pursuit began near 48 and East Lytle Five Points Road.
Police said the pursuit wound north on Bunnell Hill Road and west on Social Row Road, which becomes Austin Boulevard. According to the police report, the suspect vehicles collided briefly when they approached the intersection with state Route 741, then continued toward Interstate 75.
As the suspects tried to take the ramp onto northbound I-75, the Kia failed to make the turn and went off the side of the ramp, going airborne before finally coming to a stop in the grass between the ramp and the highway. The boy inside was not injured and fled on foot before he was caught by police and arrested at the crash site.
The Acura fled north on I-75, and eventually was found unoccupied in Dayton, police said. Police are still investigating the others involved.
Clearcreek Twp. police said that both vehicles were heavily damaged, and that the Kia was reported stolen out of Richmond, Indiana.
According to the report, the boy could face charges of aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, theft, receiving stolen property and failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer.
Clearcreek Twp. police were joined in the pursuit by Springboro police, and the crash is under investigation by the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Lebanon Post.
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