FREDERICK, Md. - A chase that began Saturday morning in Frederick County continued through three states before Maryland State Police troopers stopped the driver from jumping off a bridge, according to a press release from Maryland State Police in Frederick.
"He wouldn't have made it," Cpl. R. Bosley said of Alexander Vranes, 53, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The fall would have been 80 feet or more into about 3 feet of water strewn with rocks, she said.
Vranes was taken into custody at the end of the chase, which began at 8:25 a.m. when a Frederick County Sheriff's Department deputy attempted to stop a Mazda Protege with stolen tags, police said. The tags had been reported stolen in Charles Town, W.Va., police said.
Vranes did not stop and fled on New Design Road in Frederick, then onto Elmer Derr Road and Ballenger Creek Pike, where troopers joined the chase, police said.