Dorchester man arrested on gun and drug charges after chase from East Boston into Chelsea

State Police report arresting Bryan Cortez, 31, after he drove by a couple of troopers on Chelsea Street in East Boston who knew he didn't have a valid driver's license.

Cortez is well known to state troopers in general, and one of the troopers on patrol in particular, because he was charged in 2015 with dragging that trooper with his car.

State Police say that when he drove by the troopers around 5:30 p.m., they followed him as he drove into Chelsea and onto Eastern Avenue, where they turned on their lights and pulled him over:

As they walked up to the suspect vehicle, it accelerated away at a high rate of speed. The Troopers and Agent followed in the direction in which the Passat had fled and soon located it at the top of Chester Avenue, a one-way street it had traveled up in the wrong direction.

As the cruiser approached the Passat, Cortez jumped out from the driver's door and ran into a backyard. The Troopers and Agent searched for him on foot and in their cruiser, and eventually located him coming out of a backyard on Highland Street wearing a black backpack. A Trooper ordered him to stop, but Cortez ran away again. After a short foot pursuit and repeated commands for Cortez to stop running, he was cornered by the Trooper on the porch of a home on Highland Street. Cortez resisted arrest but was subdued.

Inside his backpack, troopers say they found to be a loaded Bersa Thunder 9 Ultra Compact 9mm pistol; several bags containing a white powder believed to be fentanyl; a bag containing 43 Suboxone strips; several plastic bags containing a hard white substance believed to be crack cocaine; a brown Gucci bag containing several small plastic baggies filled with a tan substance believed to be heroin; three unidentified pills; and plastic baggies containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana.

He was charged with 13 gun, drug and motor-vehicle offenses, State Police say.

Innocent, etc.