Tyler Seaton Beckwith

Tyler Seaton Beckwith, 24, was found hiding about 9 a.m. Thursday in some bushes near North Frederick Elementary School on Motter Avenue, police said. His damaged blue Cadillac was found abandoned at The Apartments at Sunset off Fairview Avenue.

Officer First Class Sheena Maples was called to the Frederick Memorial Hospital parking garage after two unattended cars, a silver Chevrolet Cavalier and a gray Honda Civic, were hit, police said. As she was pulling into the garage, she saw the Cadillac driving toward her cruiser.

The Cadillac swerved and hit her cruiser on the rear section of the driver's side, police said. Maples was not hurt, but the Cadillac kept going by breaking through a closed exit barrier.

Maples' cruiser sustained the worst damage of the four vehicles involved in the crashes, said Cpl. John Corbett.

There is no damage estimate for the vehicles, but Corbett said the cruiser would be out of service for repairs for an unknown amount of time.

The crashes happened just after Beckwith was confronted by hospital security for living in his car in the garage.

He had been fired from FMH earlier this year, Corbett said. He went to stay with his mother, who recently kicked him out. For several nights, he lived out of his car parked at the hospital.

"I guess he didn't know where else to go," Corbett said.

Harry Grandinett, FMH director of marketing and communications, could not be reached for comment.

Charges for a warrant for third- and fourth-degree burglary were also approved Wednesday night, stemming from a recent theft from a business in Frederick , Corbett said.

After the crashes, officers and a police dog searched the area for Beckwith and his car, police said. Two residents who noticed the police activity told them where the car was parked.

Beckwith was charged with three counts of hit-and-run, trespassing, destruction of property and several traffic violations, authorities said. He had not yet appeared before a District Court commissioner on Thursday afternoon.