Charges have been filed after a stolen vehicle pursuit Tuesday.

As previously reported, Capt. Jeff Wilson with the St. Joseph Police Department said a stolen vehicle with a child inside was reported around 8 a.m. Tuesday. An officer located the vehicle and initiated a pursuit which ended in the area of 18th and Duncan Streets when the vehicle being pursued hit an electric pole and crashed.

The man in the vehicle, 28-year-old Charles Allen Farthing of St. Joseph, was taken into custody. No injuries were reported and Wilson said there was a misunderstanding and it ended up that the child was not in the stolen vehicle after all.

According to online court documents, Farthing is charged in Buchanan County with felony stealing of a motor vehicle.

Farthing is being held in the Buchanan County Jail on $15,000 bond. An arraignment is scheduled for March 20.