Man Drove Into Milford Home's Deck After Wild Chase: State Police

MILFORD, CT — A New Haven man is facing charges after he fled from police, struck a police cruiser head-on, then crashed into a Milford home's deck, according to state police.

Law enforcement received information that Deor Dkai Freeman, 21, of New Haven, had a gun illegally.

Police spotted Freeman driving a black Nissan Sentra on the morning of Dec. 31, which he parked along the shoulder of Edgewood Avenue in New Haven.

Freeman left the car and approached another car for a drug deal, according to state police.

Freeman went back to his car then left, merging onto I-95 southbound. He left the highway at exit 34 and entered Milford.

Police followed the car as it parked at the corner of Berwyn Street and Elbon Street. A female passenger entered the car as Freeman left, and a detective activated their cruiser's emergency lights and siren in an attempt to stop Freeman.

He got back into the Nissan and fled. Police positioned their cruisers to block his route, but Freeman "maneuvered his vehicle forward and backward, trying to evade capture, and ultimately struck a police vehicle head-on," according to state police.

He then drove onto the front lawn of a Berwyn Street home before merging onto Elbon Street and striking a parked, unoccupied white Toyota Prius. The force of the impact pushed the Prius into the front driver's side of a detective’s police vehicle.

Freeman continued driving north on Elbon Street, eventually turning onto Northwood Place, a dead-end.

He drove into a home's backyard and hit a rear deck. Freeman then left his car and fled on foot. Detectives captured him shortly thereafter on Cowles Street.

State police said they also found Freeman had 6.76 grams of a white rock-like substance and a significant amount of cash. Police searched his car and found a Polymer 80 9mm "ghost gun" with a 31-round capacity magazine loaded with 15 rounds and one chambered round.

Freeman was charged with possession of narcotic substance with intent to sell, possession of a controlled substance, illegal possession of a firearm with no serial number, illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle, illegal possession of a large capacity magazine, interfering with an officer/resisting, and criminal possession of a firearm.

He was held on $300,000 bond and scheduled to appear in court Friday.