MARIGOT:--- The Gendarmes have arrested a 24 year old man and sent him to Basse Terre for allegedly trying to run over a gendarme during a routine control. According to a press release from the Gendarmerie, the suspect refused to stop at a check point at Rue L'Esperance on Tuesday night. The suspect they said accelerated his vehicle and almost ran over a gendarme. The officers immediately gave chase and captured the suspect in the French Quarter area after the suspect lost control of his vehicle and crashed it. The suspect was taken to the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital for treatment to the injuries he sustained. While there he tried to escape but the gendarmes managed to recapture him. The gendarmes also arrested a man who is a suspect of the armed robbery of a gas station. The suspect was identified and arrested on October 30th for the offense he committed on January 13 2009.
