By Deia de Brito
ddebrito@sacbee.com
A Twin Rivers police officer, responding to call for help from another officer, crashed his patrol car into a barrier in front of a house at the intersection of Don Julio Boulevard and Melrose Drive this morning, according to a police spokesman.
The police officer was not injured, said William Cho, the station's public information officer. He said there was minor property damage to the police car and to the fence or wall.
The officer who crashed the police car was responding to a request from another officer, who had two subjects at gunpoint inside a vehicle, Cho said. That officer had stopped the reckless driver, who had performed an illegal U-turn, in the North Highlands area. The officer ordered him back into the car after the driver starting running at the officer. His minor son, aged about 16 or 17, was in the car.
The suspect was unarmed and did not appear to be substance-impaired, said Cho.
The police officer waited for at least three or four police officers to arrive before ordering the subjects out of the car. The suspect is in custody and could be charged with reckless driving or resisting arrest, said Cho, who added that the suspect admitted he did not take his bipolar medication.
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