A bizarre encounter between a man and a sheriff's deputy overnight led to a stolen police cruiser early Friday and a chase through three counties that ended with a deputy injured and a police dog stabbed.

It all started when a Vinton County Sheriff's Deputy pulled up to a car alongside the road to question the individuals inside. What happened next took police from five agencies on a bunch of twists and turns for hours along southeast Ohio's icy roads.

The first confrontation happened on Ohio Route 324 in Vinton County in the tiny town of Dundas.

"Deputy Bowden pulled up to the scene and saw a male and female attempting to change places in the vehicle," Vinton County Sheriff David Hickey said. "The man exited the vehicle and confronted Deputy Bowden and said he was hassling him and saying he was the driver."

According to Hickey, that man was Kelly Krebs. The two argued, got into a scuffle and Krebs entered Bowden’s cruiser. That’s when the chase started.

"At that point, Deputy Bowden was knocked to the ground, attempted to gain control of Krebs, who had jumped into Deputy Bowden's cruiser, which our K-9 Dooley was in," Hickey said. "Krebs attempted to drive off with Bowden holding on to Krebs, trying to pull him out of the vehicle. At that point, Bowden was dragged 150 to 200 feet along the road."

Deputies from Vinton, Gallia, Athens and Meigs and the Ohio State Highway Patrol all got involved.

"He attempted to run cruisers off the road during the pursuit, ran through roadblocks in reckless fashion," Hickey said. "One of our officers attempted a PIT maneuver and was unsuccessful. Another deputy, on my orders, tried to shoot the tires out, that was unsuccessful."

At one point, Krebs got out of the cruiser and ran into the woods. That's when the Gallia County Sheriff's Department released their police dog on him.

At some point, the dog made contact with Krebs, and he stabbed the dog twice in the neck.

Shortly after that, Ohio Highway Patrol was finally able to take Krebs into custody without a problem.

Krebs faces numerous charges in three counties, including assault of a police dog, assault of a police officer and theft of a vehicle. He has been in trouble with law before. He was just released from prison last year for vehicular homicide for the death of an 18-year-old boy in Vinton County in 2003.

We received word from Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning that "Jeck," the Gallia K-9 who was injured, underwent surgery and is currently in stable condition.