County officers chase suspect

Details were still being unraveled Thursday afternoon concerning a reported high-speed chase that originated in the Flat Rock area and ended with a traffic crash in Mount Airy.

This resulted in a suspect being taken into custody near a city greenway, according to Mount Airy Police Chief Dale Watson.

The incident unfolded around 10:30 to 10:45 a.m. Thursday on Lovers Lane in the Flat Rock area involving a suspect vehicle and personnel of the Surry County Sheriff’s Office.

Motorists in the area were urged to exercise caution due to the high-speed nature of the situation.

Based on reports, the pursuit apparently progressed along Lovers Lane to where that road runs into N.C. 89 in Bannertown.

It then continued along that route and onto South Main Street into the city limits.

Chief Watson indicated that the pursuit ended with a crash involving damage at H.B. Rowe Environmental Park on Hamburg Street, located just off South Main.

There reports that whoever was in the vehicle took off on foot along the Granite City Greenway section near H.B. Rowe Environmental Park before subsequently being apprehended.

Chief Watson lacked further details.

“It’s all county,” he explained regarding the fact that the case was being handled by the Surry Sheriff’s Office due to the chase originating within its jurisdiction.

Personnel of the Mount Airy Police Department only joined in at the end of the chase in a support role, the chief said.

Attempts to obtain further information from the Surry Sheriff’s Office Thursday were unsuccessful.