2 police officers injured after crashes involving stolen cars

WHIO Staff
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Twice in less than 12 hours, two vehicles hit two officers.

As reported on News Center 7 at 5, we had crews at both scenes in Montgomery County.

Huber Heights Police officers and medics were dispatched just before 6:30 a.m. Thursday to the 5000 block Hayden Loop at the Hayden Park Apartments on suspicious subjects, a spokesperson for the police department said.

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The caller said that the suspects arrived in an orange vehicle and were trying to break into others in the area, the spokesperson said.

When officers got on the scene, they encountered the suspects trying to steal a resident’s vehicle. The suspects went back to the vehicle and tried to flee the area.

According to the spokesperson, several officers attempted to stop the suspects by boxing the vehicle in and deploying stop sticks. While doing so, the suspect vehicle hit a cruiser head-on, disabling both vehicles.

The three young men in the car jumped out and ran.

“Jumped the fence and ran into an adjacent apartment complex. We called our K-9 unit as well as the fire department drone to look for the suspects, they were not located,” Lt. Brian Carr said.

While attempting to stop the vehicle, the suspect vehicle hit a cruiser head-on, disabling both vehicles.

In Dayton Wednesday night, a suspect struck an officer while driving away from a traffic stop.

Police said they were doing a stolen vehicle sweet and got word of a man with several arrest warrants.

“A female ran from the truck, we chased after her and grabbed onto her but he male passenger jumped in the driver’s seat,” Lt. Randy Beane with Dayton police said.

Police said the man hit an officer as he took off, the officer walked away with minor injuries.

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Officers chased the man all the way to Indiana.

The officer hit was evaluated by medics and released.

We will continue to update this story.