Update: Driver Arrested in Police Chase Had Turned 18 Only 4 Days Earlier

Updated at 9:55 a.m. March 8, 2012

Four days after turning 18, a driver was arrested early Thursday after running from a police officer attempting to pull over his vehicle, which lacked license plates, authorities said.

The officer was trying to pull over the Lincoln sedan in the vicinity of Amherst and 69th streets, near the La Mesa-San Diego boundary, around 1:30 a.m., said La Mesa police Sgt. Bret Richards.

The driver, later identified as Nathaniel Evan Gaines, failed to yield and made a couple of turns before he got out of the vehicle and ran, jumping over fences to get into the back yard of a residence in the 6900 block of Eberhart Street, Richards said.

The officer caught up with Gaines, who was taken into custody on suspicion of resisting a police officer, Richards said.

Channel 10News.com said Ricards suffered a minor cut to his hand when he jumped a fence.

Gaines was being held on $5,000 bail after being booked into downtown County Jail at 4:06 a.m. His arraignment is set for 1:30 p.m. Monday in El Cajon Superior Court.

City News Service contributed to this report.