LEXINGTON, S.C. — The Lexington Police Division is offering new details about an incident that spurred a neighborhood search and shut down space roads on Saturday night time.
In line with a press release launched on Sunday morning, the entire incident started when deputies tried to cease a automobile for having a headlight out and an expired license plate.
Police stated the driving force did not cease and as a substitute tried to flee by driving away at excessive pace. Lexington Police stated there was no automobile chase of the suspect because the violations the driving force was dealing with at the moment did not rise to a stage the place the division would enable a pursuit.
Nevertheless, the escaping suspect crashed anyway and pictures from the scene confirmed the automobile closely broken and flipped on its facet off of Roberts Avenue close to Gibson Street. The responding officer arrived in time to see the suspect climbing from the wreckage and persevering with his escape try into the close by woods.
With assist from the Lexington County Sheriff's Division and the South Carolina Freeway Patrol, police had been capable of arrange and preserve a fringe whereas shutting down roads within the space to look. A sheriff's division Ok-9 staff was additionally known as in and police used a drone to look by air.
Police stated that, with the assistance of their drone, it took roughly two hours to catch the suspect. Officers arrived and took the suspect a 17-year-old boy, into custody after which to the hospital for therapy of collision accidents and publicity.
Additional investigation discovered not solely that the teenager did not have a driver's license however that the automobile was stolen. The teenager was additionally described as a "validated" gang member, which means he was entered into state data at a earlier time as having a gang affiliation.
Authorities stated there are particular necessities for somebody to fall below this class.
The suspect now faces new fees of failure to cease for blue lights, leaving the scene of a collision, reckless driving, driving and not using a license, and possession of a stolen automobile - these being along with the preliminary violation of a faulty headlight.