PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are investigating the ownership of a car whose driver allegedly attempted to get away when officers tried to stop him in Olneyville.
The incident occurred at about 1 a.m. Saturday, when the police tried to stop a Cadillac at Westminster and Troy streets that they thought might have been stolen.
The driver, later identified as Arney B. Hepburn, 28, of 68 Pershing St., Cranston, headed west on Manton Avenue in excess of 50 mph with at least two cruisers in pursuit, but he lost control of the Cadillac and it struck a utility pole at 590 Manton Ave., according to the police. It took a rescue crew a while to free him from the car.
Hepburn and a passenger in the rear seat who was identified as Taylor M. King, 19, of 189 Bridgham St., were injured but their conditions could not be determined late Saturday.
Hepburn was charged with the crime of eluding a law enforcement officer with a motor vehicle in a high-speed chase as well as noncriminal violations for ignoring a stop sign and not using a turn signal, failure to obey traffic control devices, and operating an unregistered vehicle and without insurance.
The police said that the registration plate on the Cadillac was assigned to another vehicle that was reported stolen.
An earlier version was posted at 11:18 a.m. and updated at 5:32 p.m.