A man trying to hide from the police was accidentally killed when he was run over by a bulldozer Monday morning in Berks County, according to state police.

The incident occurred at about 11 a.m. on state game lands in the area of Snyder School Road and South Garfield Road in Penn Township, police said.

An employee with the Pennsylvania Game Commission was operating a bulldozer in the area to clear dense brush when he saw "a car parked well off the road in a field," police said.

Bernville Borough police responded to the scene just as "two males came out of the very thick underbrush. Both fled on foot," police said.

One of the men was taken into custody by the Bernville Police Chief and a state police helicopter was called in to help locate the second man, police said.

"The second male was briefly located by the PSP helicopter in thick underbrush. An attempt to hail (him) was unsuccessful. The helicopter lost site of the male and was giving directions to the bulldozer of his last location. The Game Commission employee and a trooper were on the bulldozer driving through the thick underbrush. The bulldozer stopped in the underbrush. The second male was located under the rear of the bulldozer deceased," according to a statement from the state police.

The man taken into custody, who was not named by police, will be charged with drug possession and trespassing; the man who died has not yet been identified, police said.

According to a report from The Reading Eagle, troopers said "about a dozen marijuana plants were found growing in the dense brush."

It was unclear if the plants had any connection to men found in the field, the report states.