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Effort man caught in manhunt to appear in court Monday

A Monroe County man caught by police Wednesday after a six-hour manhunt in a patch of woods in Saylorsburg is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. Monday before District Judge Jolana Krawitz of Stroudsburg.

Mark Everitt, 39, of Effort, faces charges on five counts of recklessly endangering another person; four counts of use/possession of drug paraphernalia; and one count each of terroristic threats, criminal trespass, simple assault, disorderly conduct, possession of controlled substance, resisting arrest or other law enforcement, flight to avoid apprehension, trial or punishment, fleeing or attempting to elude police officer, and harassment.He in the Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 bail.According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Trooper Ian MacMillan of the Pennsylvania State Police, Swiftwater barracks:At 8 a.m., Trooper Jessica Bianchi and MacMillan were dispatched to the intersection of Spring Road and Cherry Valley Road, Hamilton Township, for the report of a suspicious vehicle in the middle of the roadway.The operator of the vehicle was reported to be unresponsive in the driver's seat.Upon arrival, MacMillan saw a green 2000 Chrysler minivan stopped diagonally in the middle of the travel lanes of Spring Road, just north of its intersection with Cherry Valley Road.Everitt was observed to be unresponsive in the driver's seat.Upon knocking on the driver's side window and yelling, Everitt woke up and responded, saying that he was unable to open his doors due to the locks not working.Troopers informed Everitt that they would break the window to get him out. Everitt attempted to turn the vehicle on, but it didn't start.MacMillan saw Everitt put the vehicle in neutral and he then coasted backward down Spring Street to a residential street.MacMillan ran after Everitt, while Bianchi pursued in her vehicle.While coasting down Spring Street, Everitt passed five people who were observing the incident from their property and the street.At this point, the van was traveling at a high rate of speed, and was not traveling under its own power.Everitt then stopped his van in a driveway of a residence at the bottom of the hill on Spring Road. MacMillan saw him get out of the vehicle and run through the yard of the residence and into a dense wooded area toward Cherry Valley Road.Police began searching the area.At around 1:18 p.m., Everitt had walked out of the woods near Spring Road. A man and his teenage brother followed Everitt and confronted him about the incident while family members were calling 911.Everitt struck the teenager in the abdomen with a tree branch, causing abrasions.Everitt then told the residents that he had a knife, and then ran down a dirt road and into the woods in the direction of Cherry Valley Road, where a perimeter was set up and the search was continued.At around 1:45 p.m., a homeowner reported a man entered her residence, and that she pushed him out of the house and he ran into the woods behind her residence.Trooper Carl Mease of the PSP Swiftwater Patrol Unit saw him run into the woods. When Mease instructed Everitt to get onto the ground, Everitt stood up with a large sledgehammer in his hands and ran.Mease used his department-issued Taser to incapacitate Everitt, who was ordered to place his hands behind his back.Everitt refused to comply, and Mease again used the Taser. He was taken into custody.Everitt's vehicle was towed from the location of the incident and transported back to PSP Swiftwater barracks.An inventory search was completed on his vehicle, where three smoking pipes containing marijuana, a small glassine containing 11 yellow pills identified to be Clonazepam, and 14 glassine baggies were found in the center console area of the vehicle.