World Photos by Madeline Steege North Bend Police officers Milo Arnesen, left, and Gil Datan, right, use a police dog, Recon, to track a suspect through a North Bend neighborhood early Thursday. Police said they were looking for the suspect because he left a traffic stop in Coos Bay.

A North Bend neighborhood was cordoned off Thursday morning, after a police chase stopped at the end of Liberty Street, where police agencies conducted a search on foot with a dog.

Coos Bay Police Officer Sean Merritt said the chase began when he attempted to stop a 1980s black Ford truck at the corner of Broadway Street and Newmark Avenue, for running a red light.

Merritt said the driver initially stopped the truck at the corner of Sherman and Newmark avenues before continuing north on Sherman. He then turned on to Maryland Street and then Liberty, where he abandoned his vehicle and left the scene on foot down a hill into a gully near Pony Creek.

Moments later, two North Bend Police cruisers and the department's canine search unit arrived at the bottom of the hill on Wall Street. Officers Gil Datan and Milo Arnesen canvassed the area with Recon, a 17-month-old Malinois, which on Wednesday tracked down a bank robbery suspect in Lakeside.

The suspect remained at large this morning. Datan said the officers would conduct an article search because the suspect was seen by neighbors wearing fewer pieces of clothing than in the original description from Coos Bay Police.

If Recon could pick up a scent from the suspect's discarded items, Datan said, the search would continue through the neighborhood's surrounding wooded trails.

Meanwhile, agencies blocking Maryland and Brussells streets left the scene. They included the Coos County Sheriff's Office, Coos Bay Police, Oregon State Police and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Coos Bay Police took information from the abandoned vehicle while waiting for word from the North Bend officers. They described the suspect as a male of medium height and weight, last seen wearing a dark jacket and a white baseball cap. The case is still under investigation.