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Suspects who rammed into police car during chase, arrested

LA MESA (CNS) - Two suspected burglars rammed their vehicle into a La Mesa police car during a car chase, and were arrested Saturday.

About 5:45 a.m., La Mesa Police officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of 7484 University Ave. The suspect, later identified as Ryan Allen, 27, failed to yield to officers and led them on a short vehicle chase, Police Chief Ed Aceves said.

With a woman later identified as Terri Briggs, 38, on board, Allen turned onto Lowell Street and crashed his vehicle into a utility pole near Normal Avenue.

As an officer exited his patrol car to approach them, Allen put the vehicle in reverse and backed toward the officer, ramming the patrol car but not the officer, Aceves said.

Allen drove off, with police right behind. On Parks Avenue near Seneca Place, the car crashed into a retaining wall, and both suspects ran in opposite directions, he said.

Officers chased them and arrested the man and women. Inside their car was property stolen from a vehicle at the parking lot on University Avenue, Aceves said, and that property was returned to its owner.

Allen was booked into the San Diego County Jail on suspicion of burglary, assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, driving under the influence of drugs and evading police. He was held on $50,000 bail and scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 on Thursday at the El Cajon courthouse, according to jail records.

Briggs was booked into the Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility for suspicion of burglary, resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. Her bail and arraignment schedule was not known at this time, according to a jail spokesperson.