Four males were arrested after they allegedly robbed a jewelry store in North Andover at gunpoint and then led police on a car chase into Lawrence Thursday, police said.
Officers responded to Milos Joyeria located at 563 Chickering Road, after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting an Armed robbery at about 10:40 a.m., North Andover police said in a statement on Facebook.
An officer working a detail noticed a vehicle that matched the description of the vehicle the suspects were in and alerted another officer in a police cruiser, North Andover police said in a second statement on Facebook. The suspects got out of the vehicle and switched to a second vehicle that appeared to have been staged in the parking lot.
Officers chased the vehicle along Route 125 and onto Sutton Street, where it merged onto Route 495, North Andover police said.
The suspects were driving a Honda CRV, Lawrence police said in a statement. Officers pursued the vehicle into Lawrence, where it crashed near Marston Street.
The suspects ran into nearby residential neighborhoods and wooded areas, Lawrence police said.
Other departments, including the State Police, Methuen police, the Essex County Sheriff’s Department, and the FBI responded to the scene and set up a containment perimeter, Lawrence police said. They began a search of the area that included drones, K9 units, and a State Police air wing.
One of the suspects was arrested after a brief foot chase, Lawrence police said.
A Lawrence officer, who was working a detail, saw the other three suspects hiding in a crawl space beneath the double-decker bridge, Lawrence police said. They were wedged between the foundation and a support beam.
All three were ordered to surrender one by one and were taken into custody without further incident, Lawrence police said.
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