Drug suspect arrested in Colorado after carjacking three vehicles, leading cops on wild high-speed pursue – NY Daily News
Drug suspect arrested in Colorado after carjacking three vehicles, leading cops on wild high-speed pursue
A wished maniac led police on a wild, high-speed pursue through Colorado on Wednesday after he stole a car from a gas station and then managed to carjack two other drivers during the pursuit.
The alleged thief, Ryan Stone, was arrested at around eight a.m. after he crashed at intersection outside Denver and attempted to escape police by fleeing through the snow on foot, local news footage showcased.
A Colorado State Trooper was injured in the pursue and was taken to a Littleton hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, local ABC News reported.
One source told the station the trooper suffered a cracked gam.
Stone was arrested at around eight a.m. after crashing a stolen vehicle in an intersection some twenty miles south of downtown Denver.
Authorities said the pursuit began at around six a.m. when Stone, 28, swiped a maroon Ford Edge SUV with a 4-year-old child in it from a Bradley’s gas station in Longmont.
The child’s mother had left the car idling while she went inwards to pay for gas, authorities said.
Stone, who cops said was dreamed on drug charges, leaped inwards and sped off, heading south on I-25.
Ryan Stone was wished on drug charges and had failed to make a court appearance earlier this month.
As police and news helicopters tailed the vehicle, the driver tore through rush hour traffic, veering onto the shoulders to pass other cars.
After exiting the highway, he eventually ended up on I-76, where he headed off a suntan minivan travelling on an exit ramp.
Stone, who was dressed in a gold and black jacket, leaped out of the Ford and pulled the driver and another person out of the van, harrowing news footage demonstrated.
The incident began when Stone allegedly stole a crimson Ford SUV from a gas station in Longmont. A brief time later, Stone cut off the driver of a sunburn minivan near I-76, pulled the van’s driver from the car and fled in that vehicle, seen above.
He then sped across a grass embankment and roared through the eastbound lanes of I-76, heading the wrong way.
Authorities said the little boy was left behind in the Ford.
He wasn’t hurt, and Longmont police were working to reunite him with his mother, a spokesman told local ABC.
After crashing and crippling the minivan, Stone rammed a silver sedan, yanked the female driver out and fled in her car.
In the van, Stone came close to ramming several cars head-on and dodged police stop plunges before ending up on E-470, where he clipped several more cars and struck a guard rail, hurting the van.
Minutes later, he crashed into another car, this time a silver sedan.
When that car stopped, Stone crept up to the driver’s door and yanked a woman out, the helicopter footage displayed.
Police caught up with Stone after he crashed into another car intersection near Peoria St. and Lincoln Ave., south of Denver. He attempted to run, but was arrested.
The woman lunged for the door as Stone sped off.
About a mile later, he flew into an intersection near Peoria St. and Lincoln Ave., about twenty miles south of downtown Denver, and slammed into another car, crippling his getaway car.
He fled on foot through the snow and attempted to hop a chain link fence, but couldn’t get over.
The 4-year-old boy in the very first car Stone stole was unhurt. A state trooper was earnestly injured during the pursue and taken to a local hospital.
As officers closed in, he lay on his belly and was quickly pinned down and cuffed. Police said he did not have a weapon on him.
He was taken to a local hospital, where investigators were looking into whether he was high or inebriated.
Longmont police spokesman Commander Jeffrey Satur told the Associated Press that Stone was desired on a “dangerous drug” charge after he didn’t display up to a court hearing March Four.
Stone was with his gf when she was stopped in an evidently stolen car in Longmont Tuesday night, Satur said. It’s not clear why he wasn’t arrested then.
Stone was “certainly running like a person who did not want to go back to jail,” Satur said.
It wasn’t yet clear if the driver in the last collision was injured.
The Denver Post reported Stone had a long rap sheet dating back to 2003, including busts for brunt, drugs, weapons possession and child manhandle.