HARTLAND — A 47-year-old Somerset man was charged Friday with several crimes after Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies caught him fleeing a stolen vehicle.
According to NCSO, deputies had gotten a tip that Carl J. Rivers was driving a vehicle stolen in Pasco County, Florida. They located Rivers driving the vehicle, but he refused to stop and a short pursuit ensued, which ended when he struck a rock while attempting to enter private property on Hartland Road, and then attempting to flee on foot.
Rivers is charged with third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, unlawfully fleeing a police officer, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, reckless driving, aggravated unlicensed operation and numerous traffic violations.
He was arraigned in front of Town of Hartland Justice Sullivan and remanded to the Niagara County Jail with no bail. He is due back in the Town of Hartland Court on Sept. 6.
