TOLLAND, Conn. — Connecticut state police arrested a wanted suspect for stealing and crashing a car and evading police in Tolland on Wednesday afternoon.
Around 2:10 p.m., the Tolland Resident Troopers Office said that state police were searching for the suspect in the area of Birchwood Drive and Old Cathole Road.
K-9 police units were at the scene assisting in the investigation, state police said.
State police said that the suspect fled the scene of a crash on Interstate 84 West near Exit 68 on Tuesday evening.
State police said that around 9:57 p.m. on Tuesday, troopers assigned to Troop C and the Tolland Resident Trooper Office were dispatched to I-84 near Exit 68 for a report of a single car crash into the concrete barrier in the center median.
When troopers arrived, they discovered that the man had fled on foot and the car was confirmed stolen out of North Carolina.
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