4 suspects in custody after leading Monroeville police on car, foot chase

Four suspects were taken into custody after Monroeville police said they led them on a car and foot chase Wednesday evening.

A Penn Hills man and three associates were arrested after the man allegedly threatened people inside a Monroeville home then attempted to flee police.

Monroeville police Chief Doug Cole said officers were originally dispatched at 7:12 p.m. Wednesday for a disturbance along the 300 block of Coleman Drive.

Witnesses said Derrick Means, 30, was on a front porch threatening people. Two people wearing masks were outside of a white Chevy pickup truck and one person was inside the vehicle.

Means and the others attempted to flee the scene once officers arrived. No one inside the home was injured.

The suspects sideswiped a police car and struck an additional vehicle as they fled in the pickup, Cole said.

“The pursuit goes from Coleman Drive onto Haymaker Road onto Route 48 and at the intersection of (Route 22) at 48,” Coleman said. “The pursuit lasted no more than two minutes. He hit two cars at the intersection.”

Cole said two people in one of vehicles Means struck were taken to Monroeville’s Forbes Hospital for with non-life-threatening injuries. People in the other vehicle were not injured.

Means and a backseat passenger were arrested at the intersection. That suspect was identified as Jermaine Walker, 21, of Pittsburgh.

Two others attempted to flee on foot. One was later apprehended at a hotel near the crash site with the assistance of Pitcairn police.

That suspect was identified as Myles Johnson, 42, of Brackenridge.

The other was arrested at a housing plan off Sunset Drive. That suspect was identified as Quelon Robinson, 23, of Pittsburgh.

Officers discovered three guns in the pickup, including two with an illegal switch that converts the pistol into an automatic weapon, according to the criminal complaint.

Police also recovered a backpack containing a marijuana in a mason jar, two false dispensary bags, packaging material, a marijuana cigar roller and grinder, a velvet Crown Royal bag with multiple bricks of heroin/fentanyl, about 137 grams of cocaine and a digital scale, court documents indicate.

Means is charged with aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, carrying firearms without a license, person not to possess firearms, institutional vandalism, fleeing or attempting to elude police, conspiracy, accident involving damage to unattended vehicle, accident involving damage to attended vehicle, two counts of accidents involving death or personal injury, two counts of recklessly endangering another person, three counts of possession of controlled substances, three counts of terroristic threats, three counts of possession with intent to deliver and four counts of failure to stop and give information or render aid.

Walker, Johnson and Robinson were all charged with carrying firearms without a license, conspiracy, three counts of possession of controlled substances and three counts of possession with intent to deliver.

Walker was also charged with person not to possess firearms.

All four suspects were taken to the Allegheny County Jail.

All four have preliminary hearings before District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst scheduled for July 1.