One driver arrested after early morning police pursuit; another remains at large

ELYRIA — Two drivers were arrested and a third escaped after a three-vehicle police pursuit about 3 a.m. Thursday, police said.

Police seaerch a car that crashed on Broad Street at the East Avenue intersection in Elyria around 3 a.m. Thursday after a police pursuit. EVAN GOODENOW/CHRONICLE

The pursuit, involving Lorain County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Elyria police, ended with one of the cars crashing into a fire hydrant in front of Boomers, 305 Broad St., by the East Avenue intersection.

The driver of that car, a silver Honda Civic, ran away after the crash, said Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Bob Perkins. He said the Honda was stolen from Lorain. The driver remained at large Thursday night.

A second driver was arrested after he lost control of a black Honda Civic, driving over multiple curbs and onto the property of the BASF Corp., 120 Pine St., Deputy Gage Hume wrote in a report. He said that car was also stolen in Lorain.

Hume wrote that the incident began after he noticed the three vehicles driving closely together on West Avenue near Oberlin Road. He ran the license plate of the black Honda and found that it was stolen. When he tried to stop the car at the Sunoco station on East Avenue and Fourth Street, the driver sped away before crashing at BASF.

Deputies identified the driver of the black Honda as a 16-year-old boy of the 1900 block of East 36th Street in Lorain. He was turned over to the Lorain County Juvenile Detention Home. Hume recommended he be charged with reckless driving, receiving stolen property, failure to comply with an officer and obstructing official business.

A Jeep Cherokee that wasn’t stolen, but was involved in the chase, was stopped in the parking lot of the AutoZone, 103 Second St., by Elyria police. The driver was identified as Luis Alvarez Rivera, 19, of the 2900 block of Caroline Avenue in Lorain.

Rivera was charged with reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, obstructing official business and issued a seat belt violation citation. He was being held in lieu of a $1,000 bond in Lorain County Jail on Thursday night.

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