A man fleeing from the Aberdeen Police was arrested after crashing his car into a mailbox and then fleeing on foot. Forty-five-year-old Thomas Frederick was jailed without bond, pending a hearing before a judge.
The Aberdeen Police Department announced in a news release that officers were conducting speed enforcement on U.S. 1 at around midnight on June 2 when an officer located a vehicle speeding “well above the posted speed limit.”
Officers attempted to pull the man’s vehicle over, and “the vehicle failed to stop for emergency equipment and continued traveling Southbound on US 1 and turned onto Elm St, traveling on Poplar Street, running stop signs and committing additional traffic violations,” wrote the police department. “The vehicle continued to fail to heed emergency equipment and traveled to Peach Ave, where it hit a residential mailbox next to a driveway that it pulled into.”
The Southern Pines suspect exited the vehicle and allegedly fled on foot. Officers immediately apprehended Frederick behind a nearby home.
Frederick is facing charges of felony flee/elude arrest with a motor vehicle, misdemeanor driving while impaired, misdemeanor reckless driving/wanton disregard, misdemeanor resisting a public officer, misdemeanor injury to personal property, misdemeanor second degree trespass, misdemeanor driving while license revoked, failure to stop at a stop sign, failure to maintain lane control, and speeding.
Photo: Thomas Frederick is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Information and photo from an Aberdeen Police Department press release.
