2 arrested after stolen car hits police vehicle, injures officers
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two people are facing charges for hitting a police vehicle with a car they allegedly stole, the Buffalo Police Department said Monday.
Police said they observed the stolen Jeep Commander on Niagara Street at Forest Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Officers alerted Erie County Sheriff’s Air 1, which monitored it. The Jeep was then found in a parking lot on Breckenridge Avenue and then fled while traveling east on Auchinvole Avenue.
The car finally crashed into a police vehicle at Grant Street, which ended the pursuit.
37-year-old Nilo Pena Delgado and 31-year-old Diana Mix are both facing charges.
Delgado is charged with the following:
third degree criminal possession of stolen property
second degree reckless endangerment
resisting arrest
second degree obstruction of governmental administration
unauthorized use of a vehicle
fifth degree criminal possession of stolen property
reckless driving
multiple traffic violations
Mix is additionally charged with third degree criminal possession of stolen property and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
Two of the three officers injured were treated and released from ECMC, while another remains with more serious injuries.
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