(KAIR)--A vehicle pursuit becomes a foot pursuit, when an Atchison motorist flees from police Friday morning, crashes his pickup through a fence, then hides in the nearby wooded area. “We began the pursuit of a pickup truck, in the central part of the city,” Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson told MSC News at the scene of the suspect pursuit. “That pursuit led us to south Atchison, eventually west of Atchison. Then we ended up on west 73 Highway. The truck left the roadway, went through a fence and into the edge of a woods. The driver bailed out and ran into the woods.”

Wilson tells MSC News his office was assisted at the scene, located in the wooded area behind Express Lube, by the Atchison County Sheriff's Department and a Kansas Highway Patrol K9 officer.

Taken into custody, shortly before 11:00 was a 24-year-old man, identified publicly only as the driver of the truck. “We actually thought it was a specific suspect that we had been seeking on an outstanding warrant,” Wilson said, explaining why the pursuit began. “We did get a female passenger out of the vehicle that had fled, and we now know that that driver is not the first person we thought [he was].”

A female passenger had been arrested earlier, following the truck crash.

Their names are not immediately made public.