Body camera footage shows Providence police arresting men accused of robbing FedEx driver in Mass.
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The suspects were driving a 'white, late-model Acura TLX with very dark tinted windows and a Connecticut license plate bearing partial letters 'BN',' Harvard Police said.
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According to an affidavit by Rhode Island State Police Trooper Neil Kelly, Massachusetts State Police advised authorities in Rhode Island on Jan. 10 the suspects were driving the Acura toward their state and were considered 'armed and dangerous.'
Rhode Island troopers saw the vehicle driving erratically and at a high rate of speed on Interstate 195 west, and the car eventually struck another vehicle and a median on Interstate 95 south before coming to rest in the breakdown lane south of Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Kelly wrote.
The four men fled on foot, with three of them fleeing 'down an embankment, towards the railroad tracks alongside Elmwood Avenue to Cadillac Avenue,' according to a Providence police report.
Body camera video footage shows officers confronting two of the men on Narragansett Avenue.
With his gun drawn, an officer yells, 'Get on the ground … Spread your hands.'
The two men lay down on the pavement and are handcuffed, shortly before police spot another suspect down the street, the video shows.
'Put your face on the ground! Don't move,' an officer can be heard yelling at the third suspect as he runs up to him.
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In another video, officers can be seen throwing a fourth suspect to the ground on the side of the highway, alongside the Acura, before handcuffing him.
Clinton, Mass., District Court records show the four men each were charged in Massachusetts with armed robbery, larceny over $1,200, conspiracy, and use of a motor vehicle in a felony, larceny.
The men, all from the Bronx, also face charges in Rhode Island, including possession of a stolen vehicle.
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