Doylestown Dad Caught In Atlantic City By US Marshals After Fleeing High

By Jillian Pikora From Daily Voice

A Pennsylvania dad who tore through crowded streets during a high-speed chase in 2024 later escaped from his work-release program after his conviction and was captured in New Jersey on a felony escape warrant, authorities announced on Wednesday, Nov. 19.

Jeremy Joseph Ott, 30, of Doylestown, sped away from Central Bucks Regional Police after officers tried to stop him for reckless driving on Oakland Avenue in Doylestown Borough on Friday, July 19, 2024, according to a police release published on Wednesday, Aug. 7. Ott was already known to them for driving on a suspended license stemming from a recent DUI arrest, police said.

Ott accelerated at a high rate of speed in the 25-mph zone while cars and pedestrians crowded the street and sidewalks, police said. Officers did not pursue at the same speed out of caution, causing them to temporarily lose sight of his vehicle.

A short time later, officers found the car stopped on Hidden Den Circle. Ott had run into nearby woods, leaving behind two passengers, including a juvenile. Police were unable to find him that night. A warrant was issued, and Atlantic City Police detained Ott during a traffic stop on Monday, Aug. 5, leading to his extradition to Pennsylvania.

Ott later entered negotiated guilty pleas in two Bucks County Court cases tied to his 2024 conduct, court dockets show.

In one case, he pleaded guilty to felony fleeing or attempting to elude an officer and misdemeanor DUI from a Jan. 6, 2024, stop in Doylestown Borough. He was sentenced to nine to twenty-three months in the Bucks County jail on the fleeing charge, with a concurrent five-day to six-month sentence and a $500 fine on the DUI, and no further penalty on illegally operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device, according to the docket.

In a separate case, Ott pleaded guilty to a fourth-offense DUI, misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving while his license was suspended following another DUI-related stop on May 22, 2024, in Doylestown Borough. He received a ten-day to twenty-three-month county sentence and a separate sixty-day term for driving while suspended, both with credit for time served, along with fines and court costs, records show.

Those overlapping county jail sentences left Ott facing up to nearly two years behind bars, with credit dating back to Tuesday, May 13, 2025, according to the DUI docket.

While serving his sentences, Ott was approved for work release. On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, he failed to return to his assigned work-release site in Warrington, prompting officials to report him missing, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office obtained a new criminal complaint charging Ott with felony escape on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, court records show.

Marshals with the U.S. Marshals Service Philadelphia office and the NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force later tracked him to Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City and arrested him on the casino floor on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2025, the agency said in a social media post.

A magisterial district court docket lists a single felony escape count in the new case, which remains inactive and is awaiting a preliminary hearing in Doylestown Township.