Credit: Morrisville Police
A Morrisville Borough police supervisor who was shocked and seriously injured while trying to retrieve evidence from the top of a SEPTA train in Doylestown Tuesday had another close call last year.
Corporal Michael Pitcher was recovering Tuesday evening at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia after being zapped by electricity while attempting to retrieve suspected drugs thrown onto a SEPTA train at the Doylestown station while working a narcotics operation. The investigation, which ended with one man being detained, was part of a Bucks County-wide narcotics unit that does work throughout the area.
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“I’m amazed – I don’t know how he lived through it,” Morrisville Chief George McClay told Fox 29 Tuesday.
But Tuesday wasn’t the first time Pitcher had a close call. The corporal was nearly rundown by a Levittown man driving a stolen car in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at Pennsylvania Avenue and Bridge Street on Valentine’s Day 2015. The eight-year veteran of the borough police department was forced to fire his service weapon twice after being struck by the stolen vehicle. Pitcher said in district court in 2015 that he was clinging to the hood of the car before being knocked off. While the suspect was struck with one bullet, he survived and was sentenced state prison for the crime. Pitcher avoided serious injury in the incident.
In his biography from Morrisville police, Pitcher is credited with once “apprehending an armed gang member who discharged a firearm prior to his arrest.”
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McClay told the TV station Pitcher recovering and joking with fellow officers Tuesday evening.
