Crime & Safety

Ross Police: Woman Charged with Harassment Tries to Elude Officers

The suspect was eventually arrested on Interstate 279 near the North Shore

Ross Township Police have charged a North Side woman with three counts of reckless endangerment after she drove off from officers responding to an harassment call Tuesday night at the Chateau Perry Apartments along Perry Highway.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Charmaine Musser was in the Allegheny County Jail awaiting arraignment. 

"Officers were called around 9:15 p.m. by a woman, who complained that another woman was screaming at her from the apartment's parking lot," said Detective Brian Kohlhepp of the Ross Police Department. "Instead of obeying the officers' orders to stop, the suspect got into her vehicle and drove off."

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Police followed as the van headed towards West View, then over to the Union Avenue entrance to I-279. When the van headed southbound, Pittsburgh Police were waiting.

"Pittsburgh Police successfully deployed spike strips at the East Street exit," said Kohlhepp. "The vehicle came to a stop near the North Shore exit and the driver was arrested a short time later by Ross officers."

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Musser is also charged with harassment, reckless driving, fleeing and eluding police, and driving without lights to avoid identification or arrest.

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