Crime & Safety

Yorktown Man Speeds, Flees Police on Motorcycle

The information was provided by the Yorktown Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

A 46-year-old Yorktown man faces a number of charges including speeding, unlicensed operation and fleeing a police officer, Yorktown police said. 

Police began the investigation on Oct. 21 at about 10:22 p.m. when officer Nadoraski observed a 1992 Kawasaki motorcycle traveling north on Veterans Road at a high rate of speed onto Greenwood Street. 

When police attempted to stop the motorcycle, the driver did not stop. Police followed the motorcycle as it traveled in a "reckless manner" on Evergreen Street before the man fled the scene on foot while on Farsund Drive, police said. 

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The driver was identified as Michael J. Chapins. 

He was charged with third-degree unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, misdemeanors; as well as two counts of speeding, two counts of stop sign violations, unsafe passing, unlicensed operation, traffic violations. 

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The man voluntarily appeared at police headquarters on Nov. 1 at about 4:10 p.m. He was processed and released on $500 bail. Chapins was scheduled to appear in Yorktown Town Court on Dec. 4.


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