The Summit County Sheriff’s Office responded to a series of carjackings that occurred in Green on Thursday.
A 44-year-old man had carjacked a vehicle, then ran out of gas on Arlington Road. The man then attempted to carjack another vehicle at a gas station on the same road, authorities said.
According to authorities, the 44-year-old moved to a fast food restaurant also on Arlington Road, where he forced his way into a vehicle and fled with the car owner's three children inside the vehicle.
The two oldest children, 6 and 5, were let out of the vehicle after he crashed into a building, but proceeded to keep the youngest, a 2-year-old, in the vehicle until he drove to a gas station on Massillon Road and removed the toddler from the car, police said.
The man fled southbound on Interstate 77, where patrol units pursued him both southbound and northbound. He continued into Akron before exiting the vehicle near Shelby Avenue and Evers Street and fleeing on foot, authorities said.
Deputies and Akron Police officers followed him into a wooded area, arrested him and took him into custody, police said.
One deputy was taken to a nearby hospital.
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