By Jim Clark

While working a traffic patrol detail on Rte. 16 at Dilboy Field last Sunday evening, police officers clocked a passing vehicle traveling in excess of 40 mph in the area’s 30 mph zone.

The officers activated their blue lights and siren to stop the vehicle, but it reportedly just kept going south on Rte. 16.

The driver and rear passenger motioned that they were going to stop ahead on the left, but the vehicle kept traveling for some additional distance, in spite of the officers repeated use of the patrol car siren, according to reports.

The vehicle finally pulled into the Stop & Shop parking lot and the officers approached the driver, who had already had his driver’s license in hand, hanging it out the window, police said.

After acquiring the license, the officers reportedly requested that the vehicle’s registration also be produced. As the driver, Shalik Smith, of Cambridge, located the vehicle registration, he was advised by the officers that he should have pulled over immediately to the right when the patrol car signaled him to do so.

Upon running a check of Smith’s license, it was determined that he had an outstanding out-of-state arrest warrant in effect, according to reports.

The officers then asked Smith to get out of the car, but he reportedly refused to do so at first and asked if he was being detained. As one officer explained to Smith that he was being detained, another officer was kept busy trying to calm down Smith’s father, who sat in the back seat, as he yelled at the officers in protest, police said. Smith’s mother reportedly sat quietly in the front seat as the events unfolded.

Smith exited the vehicle and cooperated with police as they placed him under arrest, but Smith’s father reportedly continued to yell at the officers and on several occasions had to be told to remain in the car and not interfere in the situation.

Smith was taken into custody on a charge of fugitive from justice. His parents were allowed to drive the vehicle away.