Monessen man jailed for resisting arrest
MONESSEN – A Monessen man is accused of leading a city officer on a foot chase from a traffic stop to a local bar that included a leap from a nine-foot wall.
Vernon Majors, 38, of 133 Lenawee Ave., is being held on charges of resisting arrest, flight to avoid apprehension, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct stemming from the traffic stop about 11:30 p.m. Jan. 8 in the 100 block of Schoonmaker Avenue, court records show.
Police said Majors, who was a passenger, immediately ran from the car officers had stopped because a piece of body panel was hanging off.
Majors, who police say was wearing a black jacket and hat, is accused of running down an alley before leaping over the wall.
An officer deployed a Taser from atop the wall, but it failed to make contact with the suspect’s body because of shrubbery and vines in the area. Police say Majors got to his feet and ran to the Chateau Lounge on Donner Avenue.
The officer then leaped over the wall and made his way through the vines to the bar, only to find no one inside wearing the jacket and hat seen on the suspect. Both pieces of clothing were later found in a restroom, the affidavit indicates.
But police said the officer, who had mud on his uniform from landing on the ground during the chase, noticed that Majors also had mud on his clothing, and he arrested the suspect.
Majors was wanted on a bench warrant because his bond had been revoked in a 2012 terroristic threats case in Westmoreland County.
District Judge Douglas R. Weimer Jr. set Majors’ bond at $5,000 in the Jan. 8 case.
He’s the fourth member of the Majors family whom city police have sent to jail this month.
The driver of the car police stopped that night, Thomas Majors, 36, of 646 Locust Ave., Monessen, was wanted at the time on a domestic relations bench warrant in Westmoreland. He remained in that county’s jail Tuesday.
Jacob Majors, 23, was sent to Washington County jail Jan. 1 on a warrant for failing to pay court fines, and Tyler Majors, 22, went to the jail in Westmoreland on a domestic relations warrant after city police found the Monessen men in a basement while investigating a complaint about marijuana.