\nAve., Elmhurst Police Chief Steve Neubauer told Pioneer Press.<\/p>\n
\nAfter giving the signal, squad cars surrounded the suspects, who refused to turn off their car and place their hands in sight, he said. Fearing they were attempting to hide a weapon or tamper with evidence, two officers opened the door of the car. <\/p>\n
\nThe suspect then threw his car into reverse, “scooping” up the officers and smashing into an approaching squad car, Neubauer said.<\/p>\n
\n“This is very quick and dangerous work,” he said.<\/p>\n
\nThe driver, Conzie R. Tyus, 26, of the 6200 block of S. Eberhart Ave. in Chicago, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery, unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, criminal damage to state supported property, possession of marijuana and driving with a suspended license, the chief said. It was also found that he was wanted on a warrant out of Chicago for domestic battery.<\/p>\n
\nAlso charged were Floyd Johnson, 22, of the 1500 block of S. 21st St. in Maywood with possession of marijuana; and Palie Babo, 21, of the 1900 block of S. 24th St. in Bellwood with possession of marijuana and attempting to obstruct justice (providing a fake name). Babo was also wanted on two warrants for failure to appear out of DuPage and Cook counties.<\/p>\n
\nNeubauer said the officers were not seriously injured and returned to work the following day. “They are OK. Bruised and scraped up, but back to work.”<\/p>\n
\nSeveral packets of suspected heroin were recovered from the scene.<\/p>\n
\nTyus and Babo were taken to DuPage County Jail, while Johnson was released
\non bond.<\/p>\n
Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n ELMHURST\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 — Two west suburban police officers were left “bruised and scraped” after a suspected heroin dealer struck them with his car while attempting to flee a bust last week. About 8 p.m. on Feb. 16, Elmhurst police officers arranged to meet the suspects to purchase heroin in the parking lot of Extended Stay America, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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