
A car chase that began in Fayette County and continued at high rates of speed ended with an arrest in the City of Washington. Pennsylvania State Police received information that Eric Johnson, 36 of Canonsburg, who was wanted on arrest warrants from Washington County for failure to appear at a hearing, was in Fayette County near State Rt. 119. According to Trooper Rocco Gagliardi, Public Information Officer for Pennsylvania State Police, troopers tried to pull Johnson over but he took off. The pursuit ran along Rt. 119, Interstate 70 and Rt. 40 before Johnson was apprehended in a parking lot Washington. Johnson was wanted for felony possession with intent to deliver, possession of firearms prohibited and firearms not to be carried without a license charges. Police expect to add at least a felony attempt to elude police charge. Johnson is being processed in the Washington County Jail.