County police have issued an arrest warrant for a Linthicum man they say led officers on a chase early Monday through Brooklyn Park that ended when his car became trapped in a ditch in the 700 block of Matthews Ave.
According to police, Northern District Officer David Frendlich noticed a 1986 Oldsmobile driving east on Church St. from Ritchie Highway shortly before 2 a.m. The car was going 50 mph in a 30-mph zone and weaving.
The driver continued east on Church Street as Officer Frendlich turned on his emergency lights, then slowed near Seventh Avenue, turned right on Sixth Avenue and took off south toward Matthews Avenue. The car ran through the front and backyard fences of a house in the 700 block of Matthews Ave. before coming to rest in the ditch, police said. The driver fled on foot.
Robert George Pawley, 28, is wanted for fleeing and eluding a uniformed police officer, police said. He has no fixed address but sometimes stays with a friend in Linthicum.
;/ The passenger was not charged, police said.