A 47-year-old Poteet man binging on methamphetamine lead police on a wild rampage Sunday.
It kicked off around 6 p.m. when a Poteet police officer was stopped at a stop sign, and his patrol car was rammed by a vehicle driven by Reynaldo R. Ruiz, according to Atascosa County Sheriff David Soward.
The police officer chased the vehicle to a convenience store parking lot where it again rammed the police vehicle, disabling it. Ruiz was then captured by a deputy sheriff and the town’s animal control officer after a short foot chase.
However, Ruiz was soon at it again. He was cuffed and placed in the back of a Poteet patrol car, but he managed to escape and steal that vehicle and again began driving erratically, KENS 5 reports.
When he steered the stolen police car at a fire truck, police fired several shots at Ruiz, and he fled in the stolen police vehicle.
After ramming one more police cruiser and forcing several other vehicles off the road, Ruiz was arrested, KENS 5 reports,
No one was injured in the chase. The sheriff’s office said Ruiz admitted to being on an extended methamphetamine binge and deliberately trying to ram police vehicles, KENS 5 reports.
