Suspect in Greenfield police pursuit life flighted to Baystate Medical Center
GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A West Springfield man involved in a police pursuit in Greenfield was taken to the hospital by a life flight for serious injuries after crashing a stolen vehicle.
Greenfield Police Chief Todd Dodge told 22News, that on Wednesday officers were on the lookout for a black Chevy pickup that was reported stolen. That evening police observed the vehicle in the Dunkin parking lot on the Mohawk Trail with a flat tire. Dunkin was closed at the time and when the officer proceeded to the parking lot, the driver took off toward Main Street.
Officers pursued the vehicle, which allegedly reached 55 miles per hour in a 25 MPH zone. The driver hit a bump out of a sidewalk at an intersection which caused the vehicle to become airborne. When it landed the driver kept going and officers stopped pursuing the vehicle.
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Chief Dodge said officers observed the driver continue to head east on Main Street. The driver reached the High and Crescent Street intersection, they proceeded without stopping when it crashed into a white box truck.
Crews worked to use the jaws of life to help the suspect who was trapped inside before taking a life flight to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield for serious injuries. The driver of the box truck was taken to Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield for hand injuries.
The suspect was identified as 35-year-old Hector Luis Rivera-Santiago Jr. of West Springfield. He is being charged with the following:
Marked lanes violation
Failure to stop/yield
Negligent operation of a motor vehicle
Larceny of motor vehicle (subsequent offense)
Operation of a motor vehicle without a license (subsequent offense)
Failure to stop for police
Speeding
Assault and battery with motor vehicle
Vandalism of property
Days before this incident, the police received reports of open and gross lewdness at the Greenfield Skate Park on Chapman and Davis Streets. Upon arrival, two people were arrested which included Rivera-Santiago Jr. He was charged with open and gross lewdness and also had a warrant.
The following night, officers were called at around 9 p.m. to Petty Plain Road for a report of an altercation between two men. There they found Rivera-Santiago Jr. who was taken to Baystate Franklin for his injuries. He refused treatment and walked away from the hospital. That is when the stolen vehicle was reported from in front of Blessed Sacrament Church.
WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.
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