At 11 p.m. Thursday Green Bay Police conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in the area of Harrison and Phoebe streets. One of the occupants in the vehicle fled on foot into the surrounding neighborhood. He was later identified as Neil Banerdt, a 29-year-old Green Bay resident.
Several officers attempted to set up a perimeter and a police K-9 was used to try to locate Banerdt. Officers were aware Banerdt was wanted on a felony probation warrant. The crimes that he was on probation for included several domestic violence offenses, including battery and strangulation/suffocation.
During the investigation, several neighborhood residents assisted officers by pointing to different locations that they had seen Banerdt running from. The information from the unnamed citizens proved valuable to officers, who moved their perimeter and searching with the K-9, to the appropriate area.
At about 11:36 p.m. Banerdt was located by a police K9 hiding in a common entry way to a two family home in the 700 block of Elmore Street. He did not live at the residence.
No officers or Banerdt were injured in the apprehension. Banerdt was taken to jail on the felony probation warrant and a new charge of resisting/obstruction of officers.
The Green Bay Police Department thanks the citizens who assisted officers in this incident.
