HARTFORD — Police arrested a Connecticut resident after a late night pursuit stemming from a traffic stop in Hartford.
Twenty minutes after midnight on Friday morning, a Hartford officer pulled over a car for traveling the wrong way on Sykes Mountain Avenue.
After the car stopped into Station Market and the officer stepped out of his vehicle, “the driver accelerated away from the stop and drove on the wrong side of the road on North Hartland Road until the intersection with Interstate 91 Exit 11,” a Hartford news release stated.
Officers pursued the vehicle to the Hartland border and then stopped pursuing before locating the car again on Route 5 in Hartland, the release said.
A second pursuit ensued before the car hit a snowbank. The driver of the vehicle then “got out and ran away,” the release said.
With assistance from the Windsor Police Department, Hartford officers searched the area and ultimately located and arrested the driver, a 29-year-old from Hamden, Conn., on I-91.
The driver faces charges of attempting to elude with negligent operation and grossly negligent operation, the release stated. In addition, he faces an extraditable arrest warrant from Connecticut.
“(His) car was seized while a search warrant is applied for,” the release stated.
Vermont Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Mann ordered DeJesus held on $150,000 bail on the Vermont charges, according to police. He is being held at Southern State Correctional Facility “in lieu of bail.”
