A 20-year-old man was arrested early Thursday after leading Robbinsdale police on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle that ended when he lost control and rolled the car onto its roof in northeast Minneapolis.
Nazarye Singleton, of Minneapolis, faces probable cause charges of fleeing police, possession of stolen property, reckless driving, driving without a valid license and speeding.
According to a Robbinsdale Police Department spokesperson, an officer spotted a vehicle traveling at an extremely high rate of speed on Victory Memorial Parkway around 1:45 a.m. Thursday. The officer paced the vehicle at 90 miles per hour in a posted 20 mph zone.
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The officer activated his emergency lights to stop the vehicle, a 2016 Infiniti QX50, but the driver accelerated and tried to flee. The officer pursued with lights and siren activated.
Singleton drove through north Minneapolis and traveled north on East River Road. He was about 1,000 feet ahead of the nearest squad car when he lost control, went off the roadway and rolled onto the vehicle’s roof near the 4300 block of Marshall Street Northeast, according to Robbinsdale police.
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Singleton got out of the vehicle and was compliant with officers. He was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, treated and released.
A check on the vehicle showed it had been reported stolen. Singleton was booked into the Hennepin County jail Thursday afternoon and remains in custody with no bail set.
