ST. PETERSBURG — A man and woman who stole packages from the porch of an Old Northeast home were arrested Wednesday after trying to evade police, officials said. After the man crashed their getaway car, police said, they were found hiding with an injured 6-month-old infant, whom the man held up as a shield.

The man, Derick Markis Corbett, 23, and woman, Casandra Sue-Lynn Cole, 21, face burglary charges. Corbett, the driver, also faces counts of fleeing and eluding, leaving the scene of a crash involving injury and having no valid license.

About 4 p.m., St. Petersburg police got a call about the man stealing packages in the 400 block of Ninth Avenue NE. An officer approached the man at the scene to ask for identification. Corbett ran to a getaway car with Cole inside, police said. The couple sped away. The officer did not chase.

Shortly thereafter, though, Corbett ran a red light and crashed into another car at Fifth Avenue N and First Street, going airborne and striking a parked truck. The couple got out, holding an infant with a serious head cut from the crash, police said. Corbett also had a head injury. They had not been wearing seat belts.

Officers found Corbett, Cole and the child hiding in "some vegetation" in the 200 block of Fifth Avenue N. The man "held out the infant in front of him as if to use it as a shield against the officers," police said in a news release.

St. Petersburg police spokeswoman Yolanda Fernandez said several packages from different addresses were found in the car.

All three were taken to a hospital.

The other woman involved in the crash was not injured.