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Witness: Man on drugs stole Portland police car
By Brent Weisberg
September 19, 2014
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A man suspected of being high on some sort of drug is accused of stealing and then crashing a Portland Police Bureau patrol car, officers said.
A 911 call was placed at 4:53 a.m. Friday from the area of Northeast 137th and Northeast Sacramento, police said. The caller told dispatchers that there was a man in the street screaming at the top of his lungs.
Officers said the man claimed he was being followed, but the 911 caller never saw anyone else.
When police responded, they found the man running across NE Sacramento near NE 143rd, police said.
Additional units, including paramedics, were called to the scene because of the man’s erratic behavior. The paramedics were told to stay back until the scene was safe, officers said.
Dominic Abaria, who lives across the street from where everything happened, said police were on foot chasing the suspect. He said the man was able to double back and get into an officer’s squad car and drove off at a high rate of speed.
“He was aggressive. He was screaming up a storm, trying to get away from the cop,” Abaria said.
The suspect jumped the curb, drove on the sidewalk, hit a stop sign and eventually crashed into a tree and fence near the intersection of NE 142nd and NE Sacramento.
Continued here http://koin.com/2014/09/19/witness-man-on-drugs-steals-portland-police-car/
By Brent Weisberg
September 19, 2014
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A man suspected of being high on some sort of drug is accused of stealing and then crashing a Portland Police Bureau patrol car, officers said.
A 911 call was placed at 4:53 a.m. Friday from the area of Northeast 137th and Northeast Sacramento, police said. The caller told dispatchers that there was a man in the street screaming at the top of his lungs.
Officers said the man claimed he was being followed, but the 911 caller never saw anyone else.
When police responded, they found the man running across NE Sacramento near NE 143rd, police said.
Additional units, including paramedics, were called to the scene because of the man’s erratic behavior. The paramedics were told to stay back until the scene was safe, officers said.
Dominic Abaria, who lives across the street from where everything happened, said police were on foot chasing the suspect. He said the man was able to double back and get into an officer’s squad car and drove off at a high rate of speed.
“He was aggressive. He was screaming up a storm, trying to get away from the cop,” Abaria said.
The suspect jumped the curb, drove on the sidewalk, hit a stop sign and eventually crashed into a tree and fence near the intersection of NE 142nd and NE Sacramento.
Continued here http://koin.com/2014/09/19/witness-man-on-drugs-steals-portland-police-car/
