FITCHBURG -- A City Cab driver was robbed at gunpoint in the 200 block of Blossom Street, and two officers were injured in a foot chase before the suspect was arrested Friday about 1:20 a.m., said police Sgt. Jeffrey Howe.
Details were still being investigated but it appeared the cab was stolen during the robbery and a company dispatcher or the 40-year-old driver notified police, who spotted the vehicle within seconds.
"Thirty seconds; it was pretty instant," Howe said.
The suspect, whose name wasn't immediately released, tried to run from officers.
"In the course of the arrest two officers were injured and needed to go to the hospital as well," Howe said. "They were treated at [HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster] and then released.."
The suspect was charged with armed robbery, larceny from a person, three counts of threatening to commit a crime, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and two counts of assault and battery on a police officer.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the robbery was connected to the robbery of a Twin City Taxi robbery on Elm Street early Tuesday.