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It happened in New Garden Township on March 1, said the Southern Chester County Regional Police Department in a statement. Officers were patrolling near Gap Newport Pike and Newark Road when they saw a dark-colored Kia driving erratically, authorities wrote.
The car was traveling "at a high rate of speed" when, at Newark Road's intersection with Baltimore Pike, the vehicle "went airborne," police said. Officers signaled for the driver to pull over and a traffic stop ensued on the 1500 block of Newark, they said.
Police claimed the driver, 27-year-old Victor Paskings-Woodward of Coatesville, had a suspended license.
Officers said Paskings-Woodward gave them permission to search his person and his car. During the pat-down, police "felt a hard metal object in his pants," per the release.
That's when authorities say Paskings-Woodward made a run for it, "pushing officers out of his way" and receiving "minor injuries" during the struggle. He was taken into custody but declined to receive medical attention, the department wrote. No officers reported injuries.
The "hard metal object," police claim, was a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm semi-automatic pistol previously reported stolen out of East Fallowfield Township.
Paskings-Woodward was charged with multiple firearms offenses, aggravated assault, receiving stolen property, resisting arrest, and other counts, according to court records. He is scheduled to be formally arraigned in a Chester County court on March 30.
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