Alleged driver captured hours after hit-and-run, manhunt - Topeka Capital Journal
Authorities said they arrested a Topeka man not far from Topeka High School late Tuesday, hours after they think he was involved as a driver in a hit-and-run injury accident, then ran from a deputy near the school. Lotridge said that after a Unified School District 501 police officer was notified about 7:05 p. m. of a suspicious person near Topeka High, that officer and a Topeka police officer located Mady near 900 S. W. Topeka Blvd. Lotridge wrote in an email: “The Topeka Police Officer found him hiding underneath a car before he was taken into custody (one of the residents at the apartment complex used the intercom system to notify the officer where Mr. Mady was hiding). Mady, who initially gave police a false name, was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Shawnee County Jail on outstanding Shawnee County warrants charging him with a probation violation and interference with a law enforcement... Lotridge said the series of events involved began about six hours earlier when a deputy driving an unmarked car contacted dispatchers shortly after 1 p. m. asking for assistance to stop a Chevy Traverse, which was being driven erratically near S.... While turning onto S. W. Topeka Boulevard, the deputy saw the Traverse had been involved in a traffic accident at S. W. 6th and Topeka, Lotridge said. Source: m.cjonline.com
