State police share video of helicopter tracking suspects in stolen car

You can run, but you apparently can’t hide from the flight crew of the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing.

The agency shared a video on social media on Wednesday showing one of its helicopters tracking a stolen car, then the car’s three fleeing occupants, before troops on the ground were able to make arrests.

The incident occurred shortly before 3 p.m. after officers attempted to stop the car, police said. The car fled and troopers stopped pursuing it when it left Route 79 onto local roads. However, the helicopter, Air 2, quickly responded and followed the car to a loop subdivision in Berkley, just south of Taunton.

Local police blocked the exits from the housing estate, and the three men then fled the car on foot. Officers arrested all three within minutes, police said.

The passengers – Alexia Springer, 21, and Lijah Fortes, 27, both of Fall River – were charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle. The driver – Kobe West, 19, also of Fall River – faces the same charges, as well as a number of driving violations, including failing to stop for police. He was also wanted on five outstanding arrest warrants, police said.