March 26, 2008 10:23 am
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Staff Report
ONEONTA _ A 2½-hour manhunt in the town
and city of Oneonta on Tuesday morning ended
in the arrest of a man believed to have been involved
in a series of hit-and-run accidents.
The man identified by state police as Jason
David Marks, 24, of Reynoldsville, Pa., was driving
a car reported stolen in Pennsylvania, troopers
said Tuesday afternoon.
Marks was allegedly involved in a property-
damage accident on Interstate 88, struck a
guardrail at the intersection of county Route
48 and state Route 28 and ditched the car at the
edge of a field off Township Road at about 9:30
a.m., troopers said.
No injuries were reported.
State police, Otsego County deputies, Oneonta
police, Department of Environmental Conservation
police and State University College at
Oneonta police participated in the search. It
ended in the apprehension of the man by a state
police K-9 unit near Time Warner Cable on Corporate
Drive.
Trooper Brian DiLorenzo and his K-9 partner,
Pit, found Marks hiding under a loading
dock behind the Schwan’s facility at the Pony
Farm Industrial Park in the town of Oneonta,
Sgt. David Segit said.
Marks was charged with felony driving while
intoxicated, third-degree criminal possession
of stolen property, possession of drug paraphernalia
and numerous traffic violations, Segit
said.
He had not yet been arraigned in local court
as of late Tuesday afternoon.
Segit said it remained unclear how Marks
made it across the Susquehanna River, and he
was not wet when he was found.
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