Driver rams patrol car, starts chase

Adams County deputies arrested two men after they rammed a pickup truck into an Adams County sheriff’s patrol car and led authorities on an early morning Wednesday chase that traversed the Denver area.

The suspects are being held for investigation of various unspecified crimes, said Senior Deputy Amanda Overton, spokeswoman for the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. Their names were not released.

The 20-mile chase began at 58th Avenue and Broadway in Adams County and ended at Morrison Road and C-470 in Jefferson County when an officer punctured the suspects’ tires with spiked sticks, Overton said. No one was injured.

Two deputies were on patrol when they checked a license plate of a pickup truck at 2 a.m. in Adams County and determined that it had been stolen, Overton said. The deputies pulled over the pickup and got out of their patrol car just as the pickup driver backed up and crashed into the patrol car, she said.

The deputies climbed back into their car and chased the pickup onto westbound Interstate 70, Overton said.

Law enforcement officers from the Colorado State Patrol and the Denver and Morrison police departments assisted, Overton said. The suspects took eastbound C470 and exited onto westbound Morrison Road. They stopped on Morrison Road, climbed into another stolen pickup and took off again, Overton said.

Officers set spiked “stop sticks” on the road, and when the pickup went over them its tires were flattened, she said. At that point, officers made the arrests, she said.