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A London man faces a list of charges after a driver hit three police cruisers and a police officer with a stolen vehicle.
An officer spotted a man sleeping in the driver’s seat of a vehicle with extensive front-end damage and stolen licence plates in a parking lot in the area of Oxford Street and Gammage Street on Wednesday about 7:30 a.m., London police said Friday.
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The officer learned the plates on the vehicle had been reported stolen the previous day and someone operating the vehicle had stolen gas at a gas station. More officers responded to the scene, police said.
When officers attempted to arrest the driver, he resisted and drove the vehicle forward and backwards, striking three police cruisers. An officer was struck by the door of the vehicle, police said. He wasn’t injured. The driver drove over a curb and across grass and the sidewalk and went west on Oxford Street.
The vehicle had been reported stolen on June 14, police said.
At about 3 a.m. on Thursday, a man stole property from outside a home on Tecumseh Avenue East.
Police obtained video surveillance and were able to identify a suspect.
The stolen vehicle was found Thursday morning in the area of Centre Street west of Wharncliffe Road South, police said.
Officers arrested a suspect on Thursday afternoon in the area of Tecumseh Avenue East and Edward Street, police said.
A 32-year-old London man faces 10 charges, including failing to stop for police, resisting arrest and multiple charges for theft and possession of stolen property.
The accused was expected to appear in court on Friday.
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