2 days ago
2
What began with a woman’s 911 call for her suicidal son late Wednesday night ended in a violent police chase and arrest involving four law enforcement agencies.
During the encounter, police said the 26-year-old Santee man rammed two Coronado police cars and hit a National City police dog with a wrench before surrendering and being arrested on several charges.
The chase began with a 911 call from a woman at 11 p.m. saying her son was suicidal and sitting in his van on the Coronado Bridge, according to police.
Coronado police responded, and when they found the man, he fled and drove into an apartment complex parking lot on Second Street in Coronado, police said. They said he wouldn’t come out of his van and repeatedly backed it up into two Coronado patrol cars blocking the exit, before he drove onto the complex’s pathways.
Police used spike strips to disable his van and stop him a few blocks away, but they said he still wouldn’t comply and threw objects at the officers.
National City police — who had arrived to assist along with California Highway Patrol and San Diego city police — sicced a police dog on the man, who hit the animal with a wrench, according to police.
Police then fired pepper-spray balls at him, and he eventually surrendered, was arrested and taken to a hospital.
The man was charged with driving under the influence, evading, resisting arrest, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and firefighter, fel...
English (US) ·