Windsor Police have two men in custody and are looking for a third after a stolen vehicle crashed early this morning in the city's west end.  At 3:45 a.m. today,  uniformed officers on  patrol in the area of Wyandotte St. W. at Sunset Ave. observed a red Mercury Sable - engine running, with the headlights on, stationary in the entrance to the parking lot located on the southeast corner of the intersection.  The officers felt this vehicle to be suspicious in nature and made a U Turn on Wyandotte St to investigate.  As they turned south on Sunset from Wyandotte St. they observed the red vehicle travelling westbound through the dirt alley behind the University of Windsor Music Building and the 7/11 store located on the south side of Wyandotte St.  As the officers turned their cruiser into the alley, the red vehicle accelerated away from them west in the alley, jumped the curb and sidewalk and turned left heading southbound on Patricia St in the wrong direction. Patricia St is a one way street with traffic designed to travel northbound only.

The red vehicle sped away from the officers in the wrong direction south on Patricia St. following the sweeping right turn in the road toward Huron Church Rd.  with the officers following at a distance. As the red vehicle approached the left sweeping turn still travelling the wrong way, the vehicle failed to negotiate the curve and slammed into a four foot high brick wall located in close proximity to the Ambassador Bridge Canada Customs parking lot located at 780 Huron Church Rd.  The vehicle vaulted the wall and came to rest on the grassy median.  Officers observed three suspects exit the vehicle which was now on fire and begin to run west through the parking lot toward Huron Church Rd.

Officers arrested one suspect in the parking lot.  Approximately 10 minutes later a second suspect was arrested while walking in the area of Felix at Girardot Sts. The third suspect who was driving the stolen vehicle was not apprehended.  He has been identified and an arrest warrant will be issued forthwith.

The vehicle was completely demolished as a result of the collision. A damage estimate of the brick wall and landscaping is not known at this time. Neither of the suspects arrested sustained injuries as a result of the collision. Windsor Fire attended the scene to extinguish the car fire.

Two Windsor men - 18 and 19 years of age are each facing a charge of "being an occupant of a vehicle knowing that it was taken without consent".

An arrest warrant will be issued for a 19 year old Windsor man who was driving the stolen vehicle.  He will be charged with Possession of Stolen Property under $5000 and Dangerous Driving.

                                                                    - 30 -