Las Vegas Metro
Police Car Stolen - Crashed Head On Into Second Police Car
Dec 2, 2005
What started off as a minor accident ended with a stolen police unit and
head on collision Thursday night.
The bizarre incident only lasted a few minutes. It all started in front of
Arizona Charlies on South Decatur near Charleston as a man rolled a stolen car
over. That's when Security Guards at the Arizona Charlies witnessed one of
the drivers trying to flee the scene.
Around 9:40 p.m. eyewitnesses say that man started making motions, as if he had
a gun. When police arrived the suspect followed their commands and laid face
down on the ground. But when an officer tried to take him into custody the
suspect jumped up and ran through a neighborhood. He then got into a police
car, took off into oncoming traffic where he hit another police cruiser head on.
That's when the officer in that vehicle was able to chase the suspect down on
foot and take him into custody. The suspect will face a number of charges
including battery of an officer with a deadly weapon and two counts of auto
grand larceny.