A teenage boy has been arrested after a police pursuit involving a 4×4 ended in a field near Stokesley.
At around 9.05pm on Monday, an officer on patrol near The Green, Stokesley spotted a silver Mitsubishi Shogun travelling at speed towards the High Street.
A Roads Policing Group officer was quickly deployed, but the driver failed to stop and a pursuit was authorised.
During the incident, the vehicle was briefly lost from sight after it broke through a barbed wire fence and drove off-road across farmland.
With assistance from the local community and a significant response from North Yorkshire Police, the vehicle was located abandoned at around 9.40pm. It had become stuck under a fence in a field near Ingleby Greenhow.
A 16-year-old boy from Stockton-on-Tees was arrested ten minutes later after being seen running away from the scene.
Further arrests followed when officers stopped a Teesside-based taxi at around 10.39pm. Two 21-year-old men and a 19-year-old woman, also from Stockton, were detained.
All four suspects have been released on conditional bail following questioning in connection with a number of suspected offences, including dangerous driving, failing to stop, drug-driving, possession of cannabis, theft of a motor vehicle, driving without insurance, and assisting an offender.
Police are continuing their investigation and are appealing for witnesses or anyone with CCTV, doorbell or dashcam footage to come forward.
Anyone with information is asked to contact North Yorkshire Police on 101, quoting reference 12260052293, or to report anonymously via Crimestoppers.
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