Man faces felony charges for chase

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Bond was set at $10,000 Monday for a man who reports said hit a tree head-on while being chased by police Sunday evening

Jaimi Rozario, 33, of West Princeton Avenue, was arraigned before Judge Robert Milich on a felony charge of fleeing and eluding.

Reports said officers on patrol about 11 p.m. Sunday on Market Street saw Rozario bump into the back of a car at Market Street and West Hylda Avenue instead of stopping, going around the car and driving south of Market Street in the center lane.

The officers tried to pull the car over, but reports said Rozario instead turned off Market Street and went down several side streets, at times traveling up to 80 mph before he drove head-on into a tree in the 2500 block of Hunter Street.

Reports said Rozario was ordered to the ground at gunpoint when he got out of the car and he complied.

He was treated for a cut and a bloody lip before he was taken to jail.

Also arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer was Cameo Sharpe, 32, of Fairgreen Avenue.

Reports said he was arrested about 1:10 a.m. Sunday after he did not stop for police at West Avondale Avenue and Market Street for running a stop sign. He led officers on a chase before he stopped abruptly at West Lucius Avenue and Hillman Street on the South Side and ran from his car.

Reports said he was caught a short time later but resisted efforts to be handcuffed.

Bond information was unavailable late Monday for Sharpe.