A Moultrie man had a bad day on Monday when, police say, he tried to escape a pursuing officer in a car, hit a utility pole while trying to make a turn, had his car to catch on fire and then got chased down on foot.

William Eric Green, 51, 518 Northside Drive, was charged Monday with driving with suspended license, fleeing or attempting to elude, failure to maintain lane and expired tag.

Moultrie Police Department reports said that an officer driving at about 11:30 a.m. on Fourth Avenue Southeast met Green driving a 1994 Buick LeSabre. The officer, knowing Green’s license was suspended because he previously had arrested him, turned around and pursued the Buick with sirens and emergency lights on.

Green accelerated immediately and turned left onto Fifth Avenue Southeast, took a right on 10th and then crashed while trying to turn right on Overlook Drive. After the collision the Buick caught fire, police said, and Green, who ran, was chased down a short distance from the crash scene.

In other arrests

Moultrie Police

• Oneki Ryshawn Huckaby, 18, 607 12th Ave. S.E.,  was charged Sunday with obstruction of an officer, giving false information or name to an officer and duty to obey. After he was taken into custody a check showed that there also was an warrant for his arrest on a probation violation charge.

Police said that while conducting an investigation at Colquitt Regional Medical Center of a shooting in Southwest Moultrie an officer asked Huckaby his name and he replied that it was Raekwon Scott, and also gave a date of birth that would make him 21 years old and his address as 1127 Eighth St. S.E. An officer found Huckaby’s driver’s license in the passenger door of a Pontiac Bonneville and again asked Huckaby his name.

At that time Huckaby ran, police said.

Police were at the hospital investigating the shooting of Terence Johnson, 30, and Shavensky Collins, 21, who police say were shot close to the intersection of Second Avenue and Eighth Street Southwest in the vicinity of Woodmen of the World Park.

• Johnny Lavon Thomas, 39, 505 N. Troupe St., Valdosta, was charged Sunday with public drunkenness.

• Rosa Linda Elena Ajop Chun, 36, 176 Ewer Road Lot 11, was charged Monday with no driver’s license and running red light

• Matthew Richard Mullins, 17, 155 E. Maple St., Sale City, was charged Monday with theft by shoplifting.

• Paul Lewis Strickland, 119 Old Doerun Road, was charged Friday with use of a communication facility in committing an act of felony.

• George Fredrick Young, 39, 1231 Tom St., Thomasville, was charged Saturday with theft by shoplifting and driving without a license.

• Andrews Buendia Santos, 36, 428 Ross Clark Circle, Dothan, Ala., was charged Sunday with driving without a license.

• Johnny Lavar Thomas, 39, was charged Sunday with public drunkenness.

• Pablo Ernesto Paz, 36, 1361 Moore Road, Dixie, Ga., was charged Sunday with driving under the influence and driving without a license.

Sheriff’s Office

• Joseph William Jordan, 66, 192 Chinaberry Lane, was charged Friday with simple battery.