A person was taken into custody in Milton, Massachusetts, police said, after a search near Milton Academy Thursday.
It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the search on Randolph Avenue — a Massachusetts State Police representative said they didn't have more information beyond that a person was in custody after a search of roughly an hour.
Footage showed that man being loaded into an ambulance. Witnesses tell NBC10 Boston he was riding a moped when he crashed into a minivan that was pulling into a parking lot at Milton Academy.
"She was turning in, she was pretty much in the parking lot, and then he just kept going and hit her," recalled Lorenzo Figueroa. "We saw him hit the car, and then he fell to the ground. And then after, he was like, 'Oh, so you're going to pay for my $6,000 bike,' and they were just, like, arguing for a little bit."
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The driver of the minivan was picking up her son at the school.
"She was like, 'Do you want me to call police?' and he was like, 'No, don't call police," Figueroa said.
When officers started to arrive on scene, witnesses say the man took off, leaving his bike behind, as he ran deep into the woods.
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Investigators searched on the ground and by air before the man was apprehended.
Authorities say the 29-year-old man who was riding the moped injured his leg when he was in the woods. Police have not released his name, but said he is facing several charges, including leaving the scene of a crash.
