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KINGSTON >> The two men in an SUV who led police on a chase in the town of Ulster and city of Kingston drove about 3 miles in the wrong direction on the divided section of U.S. Route 209 before being captured, the Ulster County Sheriffs Office said Wednesday.
The suspects, Darryl Dixon Jr., 30, and Devada Hines, 29, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were charged with numerous felonies, misdemeanors and traffic violations after being taken into custody Tuesday afternoon near the Bank of America building at Washington and Hurley avenues in Uptown Kingston, the Sheriffs Office said.
Hines, who was seen being taken from the bank parking lot on a stretcher, was unintentionally and accidentally struck by an Ulster County Sheriffs Office vehicle in that lot, the Sheriffs Office said in a press release Wednesday evening. The release said Hines was taken first to HealthAlliance Hospitals Broadway Campus in Kingston and then Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The Sheriffs Office said the SUV was rented and had stolen license plates on it.
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PHOTOS: Car chase ends in KingstonThe all points bulletin that resulted in the chase was initiated by state police in Rhinebeck after troopers received a vehicle description from a patron at the ixl health & fitness Club on state Route 9G in Rhinebeck, state police said Wednesday.
Trooper Melissa McMorris said the IXL patron described the gray SUV that ultimately was pulled over in Kingston.
The IXL parking lot was the site of several vehicle break-ins on Nov. 8 and 16. McMorris declined to speculate about whether the men arrested after the chase are linked to break-ins. Some of those break-ins, she said, included windows being broken, while in others, the cars had been left unlocked.
The Ulster County Sheriffs Office said Wednesday that the SUV, a gray 2016 Ford Explorer, was a suspect vehicle in a grand larceny case that occurred in Dutchess County. It did not elaborate.
The Sheriffs Office said the situation unfolded about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday when deputies tried to stop the SUV in the area of U.S. Route 9W and state Route 199 in the town of Ulster. The vehicle took off onto Route 209 south (the extension of Route 199), got off at Enterprise Drive and then got back onto Route 209, driving south in the northbound lanes for about 3 miles, the Sheriffs Office said.
The SUV got off Route 209 at the Route 28 exit, drove east in the westbound lanes of Route 28, struck a parked vehicle in front of Kingston Nissan and continued onto Washington Avenue in Kingston, with a flat tire, before eventually being stopped near the bank, according to the Sheriffs Office.
Dixon, who was driving, was taken into custody immediately, while Hines fled on foot between the bank and an adjacent building, the Sheriffs Office said. It was at that point, the office said, that a sheriffs vehicle struck Hines.
The large police presence where the chase ended backed up traffic on Washington Avenue for more than an hour.
The Sheriffs Office said Dixon was charged with the felonies of reckless endangerment, criminal possession of stolen property and tampering with physical evidence; the misdemeanors of unlawfully fleeing a police officer, resisting arrest, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and reckless driving; and leaving the scene of a property-damage auto accident and multiple traffic violations.
The Sheriffs Office said Hines was charged with the felonies of tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of stolen property and the misdemeanor of resisting arrest.
Additional charges are likely, the Sheriffs Office said.
Wednesday afternoon, the Sheriffs Office said it was seeking information from drivers who witnessed the chase about whether they saw any items being thrown from the SUV or whether they found a womans purse near the Washington Avenue bridge over the Esopus Creek at the Ulster-Kingston line. Witnesses were asked to call the Sheriffs Office at (845) 338-3640.
After the two suspects were arrested, a plainclothes officer in the Bank of America parking lot counted cash laid out on a turquoise hoodie. There was no word Wednesday about whether that cash was connected to the purse being sought by the Sheriffs Office.
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