Jan. 18--A Burbank man and a Palatine woman who crashed a car that allegedly had been stolen and then fled from police who were pursuing them were taken into custody and charged with various crimes, authorities said Monday.
The pair were identified by the DuPage County sheriff's office as Nicholas Stafford, 25, of the 7900 block of Nagle Avenue, and Sylwia Kopacz, 28, of the 1000 block of Inverrary Lane.
A sheriff's office tactical narcotics team on patrol Saturday in the Four Lakes area near Lisle saw a vehicle that had been reported stolen a few days earlier, authorities said.
Police said they tried to make a traffic stop on the vehicle, but it crashed, and the two occupants, whom police identified as Stafford and Kopacz, fled.
Stafford was arrested about 12 hours later, police said, during a burglary at a residence on Riverview Drive in the Lisle area. Kopacz was taken into custody later that evening, police said.
Stafford is charged with one count of aggravated fleeing or eluding, possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of a stolen license plate and residential burglary, police said. He was being held at the DuPage County jail in lieu of $230,000 bail.
Kopacz, who was being held on $20,000 bail, is charged with criminal trespass to vehicle and resisting a police officer, authorities said.
Clifford Ward is a freelance reporter.
