A 37-year-old man was arraigned today in Roxbury District Court on charges that he allegedly led police on a car chase from Roxbury to Charlestown on Wednesday morning, damaging several cars and injuring two people before he was apprehended, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced.

JOSE COSME (D.O.B. 7/8/72) of Quincy, was charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle, speeding, failure to stop for police, two counts of leaving the scene causing personal injury, and four counts of leaving the scene causing property damage. Cosme was ordered held on $5,000 cash bail.

“By the grace of God, nobody was killed or seriously injured by this defendant’s alleged actions,” Conley said.

Assistant District Attorney Cameron S. Merrill told the court that at approximately 8 a.m. yesterday, Boston Police officers observed that two men had pulled over their vehicles at the corner of Tremont and Parker Streets in Roxbury and were in the midst of a physical altercation.

Officers approached the men, ordered them to separate, and walked them to their respective vehicles. When officers tried to talk to one of the men – identified as Cosme – he got into his white Hyundai sport utility vehicle and fled the scene.

The officers who were on the scene gave chase, and provided the vehicle’s description to additional responding officers.

As officers followed Cosme in their cruisers, they observed him speed through a school crossing zone down the wrong way on Malcolm X Blvd. Cosme then turned onto Shawmut Avenue drove down the wrong way on that street, and struck the rear passenger side of a police cruiser that had been proceeding the right way, but pulled over in an attempt to avoid a head-on collision.

Cosme continued driving and struck a parked car in the area of 703 Shawmut Ave., then struck a black Ford truck driven by a 38-year-old Boston man, damaging the vehicle and injuring both the driver and the passenger of that vehicle. The two victims were transported to Boston Medical Center, where they were treated and released.

Officers continued to follow Cosme as he fled towards Melnea Cass Blvd. and crossed over the raised median strip, where he drove into oncoming traffic then onto the northbound exit of Interstate 93. Cosme exited the highway at Exit 28 in Charlestown, where he struck a 37-year-old woman’s blue Nissan Pathfinder.

Sustaining damage to the tire on the front passenger side of his vehicle, Cosme eventually pulled over on Spice Street. Cosme exited the vehicle and led police on a brief foot chase before he was arrested and taken into custody.

Cosme is represented by attorney Asha White. He is expected to return to court on Jan. 15, 2010.