Following a brief manhunt early this afternoon, Peachtree City police arrested a burglary suspect who ran on foot after he was approached by a police officer on Crosstown Road near Ga. Highway 74.

The officer sprayed the suspect with pepper spray during the altercation, but he managed to get away in the wooded area behind the Kwickie convenience store, stripping off his shirt as he went into hiding, police said. An officer spotted the suspect going into a drainage ditch near the Hoshizaki plant, and ultimately the suspect was found behind the Hoshizaki building, police reported.

The suspect’s name was not immediately available. He was taken into custody a little less than a half hour after the incident began.

Hawk 1, the helicopter for the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, assisted in the search along with several units from the sheriff’s investigations division.