Published February 28. 2025 06:11AM
The U.S. Marshals, working with the Hartford Police Department, arrested in Hartford two juveniles Thursday wanted on charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State Police received a complaint Sunday of a passenger of a red Toyota pickup pointing a gun at other motorists on Interstate 81 in Cumberland County.
When state police located the vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the driver of the vehicle led the state police in a high-speed, 40-mile pursuit, during which the vehicle’s occupants fired rounds at the troopers.
The vehicle became disabled near Saint Clair in Schuylkill County, and troopers arrested two of the four occupants. The two others entered a nearby Walmart and are alleged to have changed into stolen clothing, avoiding immediate apprehension.
State police requested assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service, who developed information that the two fugitives had traveled to Connecticut.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force and Hartford PD located and arrested the two fugitives, both of whom are juveniles, at a residence in Hartford.
The teens have been identified as Jeremiah Begley, 17, and Christian Guerrero Jr., 17, both of Kingsport, Tennessee. Both were transported to the Hartford Police Department for booking. Pennsylvania will be requesting extradition from Connecticut charging the juveniles with criminal attempt homicide, receiving stolen property, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault, carrying a loaded weapon, possession of a firearm by a minor and aggravated assault.
US Marshals arrested Jeremiah Begley, 17, and Christian Guerrero Jr., in Hartford, Connecticut.