Hit-and-run incidents lead to charges

Two men and a 15-year-old youth were arrested following a pair of hit-and-run incidents in the HRM early Saturday morning.

Around 1:20 a.m., Halifax Regional Police got a call that a vehicle had struck gravestones in a Dartmouth cemetery on Victoria Road. Police determined the plate on the vehicle had already been reported as stolen.

When located on Richmond Street in Halifax a short time later, police say the driver refused to stop, leading officers to call off the pursuit out of concern for public safety.

Just before 2:30 a.m., police found the vehicle again, this time abandoned on North Park Street where it had struck a parked car. Police then learned that the vehicle itself was also stolen.

The three suspects, who’d fled on foot, were found and arrested in the area shortly thereafter.

Jayne Edward Stephen Carvey, 19, and Kyle Gordon Joseph Buffett, 20, were both charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and possession under $5,000 and were expected in Halifax provincial court on Monday.

Buffett, the driver, picked up the following additional charges:

■ Flight from peace officer;

■ Dangerous operation of a conveyance;

■ Two counts of operation of a conveyance while prohibited;

■ Failure to stop after an accident;

■ Operation of a conveyance while impaired;

■ Failure or refusal to comply with demand for testing; and

■ Five counts of fail to comply with conditions of a probation order.

Carvery, meanwhile, was also arrested in relation to an outstanding warrant for his arrest for theft of a motor vehicle and trespass by night.

The youth was charged with one count of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and later released.