Jul 17, 2015 2 min read

An Indiana County man was charged this week by Donegal Township police on charges including reckless endangerment and fleeing or eluding police stemming from a chase earlier this month that started in West Alexander and continued until he entered Ohio County, W.Va.

George F. Sager, 50, of Homer City, also faces charges of driving under suspension and failure to stop for a stop sign in the July 9 pursuit that started on Waynesburg Road.

Township police received a complaint about a suspicious man in a red car. The caller told police the man was parked along the side of Waynesburg Road “acting crazy.”

Officers received other complaints over the three previous days about a man with blondish-brown, shoulder-length hair. He reportedly would walk in and out of the woods and spend long periods of time out of his car with both the hood and trunk open. Police had not been able to locate him when they received the earlier complaints.

When police spotted the man, later identified as Sager, they tried to stop his vehicle. Sager drove around the cruiser, going north on Waynesburg, and looked directly at the officer.

As Sager passed, the officer could see he appeared to be talking on a cellphone while banging his head off the driver’s side window of his car.

Sager went through stop signs at Waynesburg and Old National Pike and on Maple Avenue at Main Street. He traveled west on Highland Avenue and continued toward the West Virginia state line into Ohio County on West Alexander Road. Police also learned he was wanted in Cambria County on drug violations. He was stopped by Ohio County, W.Va. deputy sheriffs.

Charges against Sager were sent by summons from the office of District Judge Ethan Ward. He faces an Aug. 9 preliminary hearing before Ward. He remains in Northern Regional jail in West Virginia on $7,500 bond on charges filed by Ohio County sheriff’s deputies.