Officers chased young males suspected of aggravated robbery on I-70 before a crash on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
According to a Kansas City, Kansas, police spokesman, officers went to the 900 block of South 55th Street at 1:32 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, on a report of an aggravated robbery.
The victim told police several young males approached her as she stood next to her vehicle. The suspects physically assaulted the victim before taking her purse and fleeing in their vehicle, according to the police spokesman.
After the vehicle description was broadcast on the police dispatch system, the suspect’s vehicle was located and a pursuit was approved and initiated, the spokesman stated.
The suspect’s vehicle entered I-70 westbound in the eastbound lane from 7th Street Trafficway, the spokesman stated.
An officer assisting in the pursuit and heading eastbound on I-70 encountered the vehicle traveling the wrong way directly toward him and oncoming traffic, according to the spokesman.
The officer used his patrol vehicle to ram the suspect’s vehicle, rendering it inoperable, near the 10th Street overpass, the spokesman stated.
The driver of the suspect’s vehicle and three passengers were taken into custody, the report stated.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash and there were no injuries, the spokesman stated.
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Major Case and Traffic units are investigating. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.