29-year-old man, 32-year-old woman slightly injured, taken to hospital; Robert Allen Lee, 23, arrested, after leaving the scene of a two-car crash on Squalicum Parkway in Bellingham.

A police dog sniffed out a felon suspected of causing a hit-and-run crash that injured two people Tuesday morning, April 8, near St. Joseph hospital. A Nissan Altima crashed into the driver's side of a Chevy Tahoe at 10:03 a.m., when the Altima took a curve too fast. The driver of the Tahoe told officers a man with a cast on his arm — identified as Robert Allen Lee, 23 — had been driving. Lee said he needed to hurry and get to the hospital to have his cast cut off, but the Tahoe driver told him they needed to wait for police to show up, according to police. That's when Lee got back into his damaged car and drove off. The driver of the Tahoe chased the Altima. That man, 29, and a 32-year-old woman in the passenger's seat of the Tahoe needed to go to the hospital with neck and back pain. Their injuries weren't considered life-threatening. Meanwhile, the Altima crashed again, this time into a ditch by Parkview Elementary. Both Lee and a 30-year-old woman in the car fled the scene. Bellingham police, and a police dog, sniffed out Lee and the woman hunkered down by some trees at 11:15 a.m. on the Meridian Street side of Cornwall Park, about a half-mile from the second crash.