Man faces multiple charges

A U.S. Customs and Immigration agent was notified.
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Hispanic man who gave an alias that comes back to a deported felon jumped out of a moving truck and plummeted 100 feet into a ravine to avoid capture, police said.
The man, who speaks no English, identified himself through an interpreter at St. Elizabeth Health Center as Raphael Medina and gave his age as 25. He told the interpreter he didn't know his address or Social Security number. He had knee surgery and was in stable condition Wednesday at the hospital with a police hold.
A police search through the computerized National Crime Information Center revealed that the name and date of birth given turned out to be one of many aliases used by a deported felon, reports show. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was notified of the NCIC results.
Lt. Rod Foley, along with Detective Sgt. Jose Morales, who speaks Spanish, interviewed the injured man at the hospital Wednesday. Foley said he believes the man, identified as Jose Raphael Medina Vasquez, is in the country illegally.
Previous arrest
Vasquez lives with a woman on Lincoln Avenue in Struthers, police said.
Foley said Vasquez was arrested on a breaking and entering charge in March but the charge was dropped. Fingerprints taken at the jail in March, where he was booked as Raphael Vasquez, will be sent to federal officials.
Once released from the hospital, Vasquez will face charges of no driver's license, failure to comply with a police order and fleeing and eluding, according to his arrest report.
Patrolmen Ron Jankowski and Josh Kelly, patrolling the East Side on Tuesday evening, saw a black Mazda truck run the stop sign at Ayers and Shehy streets. The officers, using lights and siren, said they tried to stop the truck but it took off at a high speed.
After traveling several blocks, the truck headed east on Kirkwood Street, where it jumped the curb, drove around the dead end guardrail and continued on the closed road at the south end of Lincoln Park. The officers then saw the driver and passenger jump from the moving truck and run in opposite directions.
Path of destruction
The truck continued on, hit an embankment, and turned into the path of the cruiser. The truck's open door slammed into the passenger side of cruiser.
The cruiser stopped at a cement roadblock. As Kelly opened the passenger door, the still-moving truck hit it, temporarily pinning him in the cruiser.
Jankowski chased the Mazda's driver, who turned out to be Vasquez, and saw him jump off the road and drop roughly 100 feet down into a ravine littered with concrete and scrap metal. Kelly arrived and the officers called for an ambulance and firefighters. Firefighters rescued Vasquez from the ravine.
The Mazda truck, with license plates that belong on another vehicle, was towed and held for detectives. Vasquez's passenger was not caught.