LIBERTY Police chase ends with two arrests

Authorities are still looking for the driver of the car.
LIBERTY -- Two Trumbull County men have been charged and a third man was being sought after a police chase early today.
Hank E. Adams, 18, of Flag Road, North Bloomfield, a passenger in the car, was charged today in Girard Municipal Court with drug abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Another passenger, William A. Torreance, 27, of Douglas Street, Warren, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also arrested on warrants charging him with two earlier drunken-driving charges.
They were scheduled to be arraigned today. The driver remained at large this morning.
The car: Liberty police reported that they spotted a 1989 dark green Pontiac going north on state Route 193 with three occupants.
The car had no front license plate and the plate on the rear was expired and reported stolen in Orwell.
When police attempted to stop the car, the driver sped off, turning east on state Route 82.
At Addison Road, the driver attempted to ram a Brookfield Police Department cruiser.
The car then sped into Hubbard Township and onto Interstate 80, where the Ohio State Highway Patrol laid down spike strips in an attempt to flatten the tires, but the driver avoided them.
Officers pursued the car along I-80 to U.S. Route 422 in Girard, then onto the interstate and northbound on state Route 11.
The car stopped near Girard lakes on Route 11 in Liberty and the three men fled on foot.
Police found a marijuana pipe and small amount of marijuana on Adams and a crack pipe on Torreance.
Inside the car, they recovered three car stereos and an amplifier.