Fresno man arrested and hospitalized after driving a truck off the end of Wharf 2 in Monterey.

If attempting to evade being pulled over by a police officer on a wharf, one option is to drive your vehicle off the end of the wharf and into Monterey Bay. 

That's what happened in the wee hours of Sunday morning, April 7, in Monterey, where just before 1:30am, a Monterey police officer spotted a green Chevy pickup truck turning right from Alvarado Street onto Del Monte Avenue driving the wrong way down the one-way road, according to a statement from the Monterey Police Department.

An officer attempted to pull over the driver, 21-year-old Martin Urroz of Fresno, at the foot of Wharf 2, Monterey's industrial wharf. 

But then, per MPD's statement, "As the MPD officer approached the vehicle on foot, the truck fled northbound toward the end of the wharf at a high rate of speed."

The pursuit continued. As Monterey PD describes, "The officer drove to the end of the wharf and believed that the truck and its occupants were hiding behind the building on the end of the wharf. As other officers arrived, they blocked any exit routes with their vehicles. The officers then started to walk toward the end of the wharf to check the back of the building when they heard someone yelling for help from the ocean…

"Officers observed four people in the water and assumed they had jumped into the water to escape. The officers threw flotation devices to the people in the water and directed them to hold onto the devices and called fire rescue. It was not until the officers could not find the truck that they realized the truck had driven off of the wharf into the ocean."

Officers arrested Urroz and sent him to the hospital for medical treatment. He's being charged with two counts of driving under the influence, and obstructing or resisting a peace officer. 

The three passengers were rescued and released after being treated for minor injuries.