NICEVILLE - A man who ran from police officers on New Year's Day faces multiple charges after his arrest.
On Jan. 1 a Niceville Police officer was driving down Palm Boulevard when he spotted a four-day Chevrolet traveling at 50 mph in a 25-mph zone. He turned on his emergency equipment and gave chase. The driver turned left onto Marc Smith, then turned left on Juniper Avenue. It then stopped and the driver fled into a wooded area, where the police officer last track of him.
He was identified by his passenger as 25-year-old Alex Michael Green of Crestview.
Green was found near McDonald's and ordered to stop running, but he fled through the Goodyear parking lot and across State Road 20, where police again lost track of him.
He was later caught on Valparaiso Boulevard.
Green told officers he was "running because I was on probation and didn't want to get in trouble," according to the arrest report.
He was charged with fleeing and attempting to elude, and resisting an officer without violence.
His court date is Feb. 26.