JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WKBW) — Jamestown police announced an arrest was made after a vehicle pursuit on Sunday.
Police said officers responded to a business on North Main Street to check on a vehicle that was reported stolen out of the Town of Ellicott. As officers arrived, a man was observed entering the vehicle in the parking lot of the business.
According to police, the vehicle allegedly drove away and refused to pull over which led officers on a pursuit through the north side of the city where the driver struck a building just outside the city limits. Police said the driver attempted to flee the scene by striking a patrol car numerous times and striking a second patrol car and almost hitting an officer.
The pursuit came to an end when the vehicle crashed into a ditch and became inoperable, police said.
31-year-old Joseph James was taken into custody and charged with the following:
- First-degree reckless endangerment
- Third-degree criminal possession of stolen property
- Second-degree criminal mischief
- Third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle
- Reckless driving
- Numerous vehicle and traffic violations
