Driver arrested after crashing while fleeing police

A driver was arrested after he crashed his vehicle while fleeing from officers, according to Elkhart Police.

Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on 33-year-old Jake Moshier's vehicle at Cassopolis Street and Windsor Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, reports said.

Instead of stopping, Moshier led officers on a pursuit that ended when his vehicle crashed into a tree in the area of CR 11, police said.

Moshier got out of the vehicle and ran but was quickly apprehended, police said.

Moshier was arrested on preliminary charges of resisting law enforcement, a felony; resisting law enforcement, a misdemeanor; leaving the scene of an accident, a misdemeanor; operating never having received a license, a misdemeanor.