HAVERHILL, Mass. — Two local men face charges after a high-speed chase on Interstate 495 that ended around midnight Tuesday.

Aldis Suero, 23, of 25 Bateman St., Haverhill, was arraigned in Haverhill District Court yesterday on a charge of receiving a stolen motor vehicle. He was ordered held without bail by Judge Stephen Abany, who also revoked his bail in another pending case.

Aneudis Mendez, 23, of 26 Grand Ave., Haverhill, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. He is to be summonsed to court to face the charges.

The two arrests resulted from a high-speed state police chase that started on I-495 in Amesbury and ended with the arrests of the two men on Central Street in Haverhill.

State Trooper Shane Pierce was traveling south on I-495 around 11:10 p.m. Tuesday, when a black Chevy Monte Carlo allegedly stolen from Plaistow, N.H., passed him going more than 100 miles per hour, state police spokesman Lt. David Wilson said.

The trooper activated his blue lights in Haverhill and began a pursuit, but the driver of the stolen vehicle exited the highway at the Route 110 exit and headed into downtown Haverhill.

Pierce followed the vehicle, with the chase ranging in speeds from 55 to 85 miles per hour, before backing off at the Route 110/Washington Street intersection, Wilson said.

Haverhill Deputy police Chief Donald Thompson said local police spotted the car on River Street and Washington Street, but quickly lost sight of it.

The car was soon found in front of 11 Central St., and Haverhill police responding to the scene discovered Suero and Mendez walking nearby. They were both arrested at the scene.

At yesterday's arraignment, Suero's lawyer, David Stuehr, said his client and three other men had been heading home after stopping at a biker bar in Salisbury when the chase began. He said it was possible that his client had no knowledge of the vehicle's ownership, suggesting that "it was a bunch of guys who jumped into a car."

Suero told police the driver of the car was a man he only knew by his street name, "D," and that he did not know why the driver did not stop when chased by the trooper.

At the time of his arrest Tuesday, Suero was already facing a charge of assault and battery and intimidating a witness in connection with a June 7, incident where his girlfriend told police he choked her and hit her during an argument. He was given a 60-day warning in connection with that charge.

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