A man who allegedly crashed two different vehicles while fleeing police in Nova Scotia has been arrested, according to the RCMP. A Pictou County officer spotted a red Hyundai Elantra without a licence plate on Lawrence Boulevard around 1:25 p.m. on Oct. 30. The vehicle then went the wrong way through a traffic circle and exited back onto Lawrence Boulevard, according to an RCMP news release. The officer tried to stop the vehicle, but it continued onto MacGregor Avenue before it struck another vehicle at the intersection. Police arrested three passengers in the Elantra, but the driver fled on foot. “As officers were responding to the collision, they learned that the driver had just stolen a different vehicle, a black Honda Civic, from a nearby parking lot and left the area in that car,” the release reads. Police later identified the driver as Steven Michael Lawrence, 33, and learned he was wanted on a provincewide arrest warrant in connection to a robbery in Abercrombie on Oct. 25. Around 3:20 p.m. on Oct. 30, Colchester County officers responded to a head-on collision between the stolen Honda and a transport van on Pictou Road in Bible Hill. The driver fled on foot and officers believed it was the same man who had fled from the previous crash. Police learned the driver was at a Pictou Road residence and arrested him. The RCMP says they searched the vehicles operated by Lawrence and seized several knives, cannabis products, two bottles containing a powdered substance believed to be cocaine and two unattached licence plates. Lawrence appeared in court on Monday and was charged with: He is also facing charges of robbery with a firearm, motor vehicle theft and failure to comply with an undertaking related to the arrest warrant. The three Elantra passengers will face charges related to obstructing an investigation. For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
