Fugitive from Pennsylvania arrested in city
By Ethan Smith
Published in News on December 14, 2016 9:57 AM
Goldsboro police arrested a man Monday on a fugitive warrant out of York County, Pennsylvania, for allegedly impersonating a student and choking a girl in the bathroom of a high school.
Timothy Justin Hannah, 24, is charged with felony aggravated assault and is being held under a $450,000 secured bond.
Police said Hannah had been on the run for several months.
Sgt. Jeff Beeken with the Goldsboro Police Department Selective Enforcement Unit said Hannah's fugitive warrant also charges him with parole violation, false imprisonment, terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another, resisting arrest, criminal trespassing, flight to avoid apprehension and several driving offenses.
Pennsylvania media outlets report that Hannah allegedly impersonated a student at Eastern York High School, at 720 Cool Creek Road, went into the girls' bathroom at the school and began choking a girl inside the restroom.
Reports also say that Hannah was confronted by police after the incident but then fled on foot and escaped arrest.
Goldsboro police arrested him around 2:30 p.m. Monday at 923 Fairview Circle.
Beeken said officers received a tip from someone inside the residence that Hannah was there, and the person residing in the apartment cooperated with officers fully.
Hannah was found inside the apartment hiding under an empty baby crib, Beeken said.
Beeken said he did not know how Hannah got to Goldsboro from Pennsylvania.
GPD's Housing Unit, Investigations Division, VICE Unit and Warrants Division assisted with the arrest.
"We were told he was really good to run, so we sealed off the house so he couldn't get away," Beeken said.
Hannah is currently awaiting extradition back to York County, but Beeken could not say when he would be taken back to Pennsylvania.