Three Woonsocket residents accused of fleeing police face multiple charges

Police in Worcester County said Friday that three Woonsocket residents who fled from police in Rhode Island and Massachusetts earlier this month are in custody.

Webster police said Chayliana Carr, 25; Yankuba Diop, 27; and Pedro Santiago, 27, each face multiple charges, from resisting arrest to drug counts.

Webster police said the three were in a car being pursued by Woonsocket and North Smithfield police and later Douglas and Uxbridge police as it entered Massachusetts on Aug. 1. Police said the three may have been involved in a shooting in Woonsocket a week earlier.

The car eventually crashed in Webster, and the three fled on foot into the woods. Officers from multiple communities along with state police and K-9s searched the area…

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