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“I noted that the vehicle plate affixed to the rear was a passenger plate and not a commercial plate,” Officer Charland said. “I activated my emergency lights and pulled out approximately four cars behind the van.”
Officer Charland said the driver — later identified as Lucio F. Borges Da Costa, 44, of Worcester — tried to evade him by exiting the highway onto a private resident’s driveway at 250 Boston Turnpike, then cutting over to a closed church and parking behind the church with his lights off…