GUILDERLAND — A young man from Loudonville led police on a car chase as he tried to flee and then parked his car and fled on foot, police say.

Grant M. Sacca, 19, of 17 Hawthorne Court, was arrested by Guilderland Police on Sunday, May 21.

He was driving a 2001 Chevrolet on Route 20 in Guilderland when police tried to stop him for violations, according to a release from the Guilderland Police Department.

“Sacca immediately fled from officers, operating recklessly on Route 20, into a neighborhood, back onto Route 20 where he continued westbound, subsequently abandoning his car in the parking lot of the Guilderland Animal Hospital,” the release said. There, he fled on foot and was apprehended a short time later in an adjoining neighborhood.

A female passenger in the car, Tatiana M. Brown, 16, also fled from the car and was apprehended in the woods adjacent to the parking lot; Brown was not charged, the release said.

Sacca was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, a felony; unlawfully fleeing a police officer and, because Brown was in the car, endangering the welfare of a child — both misdemeanors; and numerous Vehicle and Traffic violations.

He was arraigned by Justice Denise Randall in Guilderland Town Court and remanded to the Albany County’s jail in lieu of $10,000 bail. Sacca was scheduled back in Guilderland Town Court for May 22.

— Melissa Hale-Spencer