INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. — Inver Grove Heights police say an officer was injured early Sunday morning in the parking lot by a wanted man who had come to pick up a friend who had recently been arrested for driving under the influence.
According to police, officers first saw two people slumped in a vehicle just north of Cub Foods on Cahill Avenue.
The driver was arrested for a drug-related DWI, and her passenger was also arrested for multiple outstanding warrants, police said. The driver was booked at the police station and would later be released into the custody of a sober driver.
“This is the point where it’s hard to believe, but it’s all true,” police officers wrote in a Facebook post.
According to police, the sober driver who picked her up also had three outstanding arrest warrants and arrived in a stolen Chevy pickup truck with Toyota minivan license plates.
The man ran away while police tried to arrest him, in which an officer was injured.
Two other officers gave chase with assistance from several neighboring departments. The truck was soon disabled on Highway 52 by a South St. Paul police officer.
The driver of the stolen truck is being held in Dakota County Jail and will likely face charges of assault and fleeing officers.
According to police, two passengers in the truck were arrested at the scene but were eventually released and will not be charged.
The officer who was struck by the truck suffered minor injuries. Police said Sunday’s incident was the third time in two months that the same officer has arrested people in “incidents that began in the parking lot of our police station,” with two of those cases involving vehicle chases.
