A Durham man was arrested after a brief chase over the weekend and charged with committing a series of crimes.

Ronald Dukes, 33, of East Markham Avenue was charged with common-law robbery, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, second-degree kidnapping, attempted common-law robbery, hit-and-run, resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer, breaking and entering to a motor vehicle, misdemeanor larceny, two counts of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and two counts of larceny of a motor vehicle. Dukes was placed in Durham County Jail under a $600,000 bond.

Dukes is charged in connection with the following incidents:

• A male entered a Laundromat at 1004 East Geer Street around 10:25 a.m. on August 7, reached over the counter and grabbed an employee's purse. The male fled in a red Ford F150 pickup truck that had been reported stolen the day before from Morgan Street.

• A male driving a red Ford F150 pickup truck pulled into the parking lot of the BP convenience store at 3511 Hillsborough Road at 11:40 p.m. on August 7. The male got out of the truck and walked over to a woman who was putting air in her vehicle tires. The male grabbed the female and tried to drag her back to her vehicle. When several witnesses came to her aid, the male got in the victim's car and attempted to drive off. The female had fallen on the ground and the male drove over her legs, causing her to suffer a possible leg fracture. The male then got back in the pickup truck and fled into the parking lot of George's Diner, where he crashed the truck. The driver jumped out and ran. The damaged pickup truck was the one stolen from Morgan Street.

• A female was stopped at a red light at Gregson Street and West Chapel Hill Street shortly before noon on August 8 when a male pulled up beside her in a black Ford F150 truck, got out of his truck and grabbed a purse out of the female's vehicle. A short time later, Cpl. R.D. Clayton spotted the pickup truck on Greenleaf Street and attempted to stop it. The driver sped away and struck a power pole on Colonial Street. The driver, later identified as Dukes, jumped from the vehicle and fled. Clayton found him a few minutes later hiding in heavy brush near McGill Place. Officers found the victim's purse inside the truck. The truck had been reported stolen earlier Saturday from Sedgefield Street.