Suspect Leads Hingam Police on High Speed Chase After Stealing Vehicle

Police are still searching for a Jeep that was stolen from a High Street driveway early Monday morning.

Hingham Police Sgt. Steven Dearth said residents on High Street were woken up at 3:49 a.m. to witness their Jeep being stolen right out of their driveway.

Dearth said  the car was unlocked, and the car keys were left in the vehicle along with a purse containing credit cards.

After the victims called police, an officer tracked down the vehicle at the intersection of Cushing and Whiting Street, but the suspect would not pull over, Dearth said.

Police chased the stolen vehicle from the intersection all the way down Route 3 North and then onto Interstate 93 northbound as the vehicle swerved through lanes, police said. Once the car got on I-93, Hingham officers stopped their pursuit, due to the high rate of speed and the unsafe driving conditions of the suspect, Hingham police said.

Sgt. Dearth said the vehicle has still not been recovered as of Thursday afternoon.

Hingham police are investigating whether the arrest of a Boston man earlier that night is connected to the auto theft.

Keon Lamont Austin, 27, from Boston was arrested  two hours earlier for driving with a suspended license after he was found on the side of the road on Stanford Drive.

When an officer approached Austin, he said he had met a girl on Facebook that morning, and that he was on his way to her house when he had gotten lost.

Sgt. Dearth said the man did not have the female’s name or address and when police asked for him for identification, he  admitted that he didn’t have a license because it had been suspended.