Milford police have arrested a man who is accused of hitting a police car, then leading police on a chase Monday afternoon.
Officers responded to Town Fair Tire on Boston Post Road around 2 p.m. Monday to investigate after receiving reports that a man was trying to use gift cards that had been bought with fraudulent credit card accounts.
As officers arrived, the man was trying to leave the parking lot and crashed into an officer’s patrol vehicle, police said.
Then he drove away and got onto Interstate 95 South, so Milford police called state police.
The vehicle was spotted on I-95 and the driver crashed into the guard rails on the exit 38 off-ramp/Route 15 connector, police said.
Police identified the driver as 46-year-old Phillion Harvey, of New Haven, and said he ran from police but officers took him into custody.
Harvey was charged with engaging police in a pursuit, evading responsibility, interfering with police, reckless driving, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, no insurance, misuse of a license plate, operating a motor vehicle without a license and criminal attempt larceny in the fourth degree.
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He was released on a $15,000 bond and is due in Milford Court on March 19.
