Man High On Drugs Led Officers On Chase: Nassau Police

Nassau Police arrested a man whom they say led officers on a chase after he was found smoking crack in his car.

According to police, plain-clothes officers found a 2003 Infinity parked on Broadway in Westbury at 9:10 p.m. on Feb. 1. The officers took out their badges as they approached the car to check on the welfare of the driver, and announced themselves as police officers. Police say they saw the driver holding a clear glass tube containing what is believed to be crack cocaine. As the officers tried to talk to the driver, he fled the scene.

Police say the driver — Genri Palacios Acosta, 35, of Meadowbrook Road, Hempstead — was stopped by officers on Prospect Avenue. However, police say he drove his car into a police car and then fled again. Officers managed to stop his car in the parking lot of a warehouse in Hicksville.

Acosta refused to get out of his car, police said. He continued to resist the officers, and they eventually used a Taser to subdue him, according to police.

Both Acosta and an officer were taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Acosta was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, three counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an incident with an injury, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation and multiple vehicle and traffic law violations. He will be arraigned when medically practical.