MONROE — A suspect was arrested in Monroe Township early Sunday morning for possessing a firearm and leading Monroe County Deputies on a foot chase.
Shortly before midnight on Saturday, deputies were dispatched to the area of West Tenth and Bacon Streets after receiving a call from a person who reported that he had been held at gunpoint and was fleeing on foot.
The victim did not provide a name and dropped the call before authorities arrived, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
When police arrived on scene, they could not find the victim.
One deputy was able to find and question two suspects, and after noticing an object in one of their pockets, he initiated a pat down of the suspect. The suspect then allegedly ran from the authorities, resulting in a chase that went through several backyards and over privacy fences in the area. Deputies briefly lost sight of the suspect, before he was found hiding on the front porch of a residence in the 1000 block of Bacon Street.
The suspect, a 31-year-old male from Monroe, was arrested without incident, the sheriff’s office said, but no weapon was located on the individual. Authorities returned to the scene and resumed their search for the firearm Sunday morning. With the help of a police service dog, deputies located a firearm in the backyard of a home in the 600 block of West Tenth Street, where the suspect had reportedly been seen jumping a fence.
The firearm, which was loaded, was sent to a crime lab for testing.
The suspect was charged with resisting and obstructing and illegally possessing a firearm, but authorities say additional charges are possible, pending the prosecutor’s office’s review.
The case remains under investigation by detectives from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Detective Bureau at 734-240-7530.