Crime & Safety

Motorcyclist Charged after High-Speed Chase

A 25-year-old East Providence man is facing charges of leading police on a high-speed chase after he was clocked driving 88 mph on Route 24 and tried to elude officers in a Tiverton neighborhood.

Two men who rode motorcycles upwards of 80 mph through town led Portsmouth Police on a high speed chase that ended with one of them, a 25-year-old East Providence man, facing charges.

Charges could be forthcoming for the other suspect, identified by police as a Seekonk, Mass.-man in his 20s, but police have not released full details of the ongoing investigation.

Police said at around 4:26 p.m. on July 20, officers were alerted to a report of two motorcyclists driving fast on East Main Road heading north by police headquarters.

One of them, identified as Jeffrey Lee Cabral, of 10 Josephine Ave., East Providence, was riding a black 2012 Yamaha with a female passenger and an officer spotted them on Turnpike Avenue as they entered Route 24.

Another officer on Route 24 got ready and clocked them drive by going 88 and 77 mph respectively.

Cabral and the other suspect, who was driving a white 2012 Triumph, continued on after police gave chase and Cabral's riding partner reportedly swerved towards an officer attempting to pass him on the Sakonnet River Bridge to catch up to Cabal.

Cabral was driving in the breakdown lane and passing cars to the right, according to a police report, and eventually was able to get out of sight after taking the first exit after the bridge into Tiverton.

The officer took the same exit and couldn't see Cabral anywhere, but a motorist who had pulled over into the breakdown lane up ahead "appeared to be directing me to take a right turn onto a side road," the officer reported. That turn led the officer to Cabral, who reportedly was trying to circle around to take Route 24 north again.

He sped off on Central Avenue, onto Evans Avenue and back on to Main Road. 

Motorists on the road were pulling over as police continued their pursuit "from a distance," police said, until Cabral finally pulled off Main Road and came to a stop in the parking lot of Olympic Physical Therapy.

Cabral reportedly told police he didn't know who the other motorcyclist was and "met him on the highway" despite officers seeing them riding together on Turnpike Avenue before turning onto Route 24.

The Yamaha was towed and impounded and Cabral was later released on $1,000 surety bail after an arraignment before a Justice of the Peace.

Both Cabral and his passenger, a 22-year-old Pawtucket woman, were wearing helmets, police said.

Cabral is due to appear in court on July 24 to answer to the charges of engaging in a high speed pursuit, first offense.


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