Two police cars rammed, two officers hospitalized, two suspects arrested

Palo Alto police arrested two fraud suspects and seized a loaded handgun after the suspects rammed their truck into a patrol car, fled and later rammed a second police car.

Police got a call at about 5 p.m. Friday from First Tech Federal Credit Union at 3000 El Camino Real reporting that a man attempted to withdraw money from an account that didn’t belong to him, police said. As officers arrived, an employee said the man was leaving in a black F-150 pickup truck.

A police officer positioned his car behind the truck, but the truck went into reverse and hit the police car.

The suspects then drove forward over a curb and sped away with officers in pursuit. 

Officers followed the truck until it reached a dead end on the 400 block of Leland Avenue and drove into a driveway. 

When officers pulled in behind the suspect vehicle, the driver again put the truck in reverse and hit the patrol car, causing the air bags to inflate and ignite a fire in the engine compartment.

The two officers inside the car, who were not identified, were taken to the hospital. One had a broken hand bone and the other suffered abrasions to the face. Neither of the suspects were injured.

The two people in the truck weren’t able to drive any farther and were arrested without incident, police said.

Inside the truck police found a loaded handgun, narcotics and numerous ID cards. Police later determined that the truck itself was obtained fraudulently using another person’s personal identification. 

Leslie Bowman said she heard the crash on Leland Avenue and came outside, and at least six cops were yelling at the driver to get out of his truck with his hands up.

“They must have said that 20 times,” she said.

A woman was in the passenger’s seat of the car, Bowman said.

“She just looked confused,” Bowman said.

The truck caught on fire, and the driver finally stepped out.

Officers quickly moved him to the back of a police car, Bowman said. 

Police booked 39-year-old Emmanuel Glinton, who declined to provide his city of residence, into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for eight felony charges including: two counts of assault with a deadly weapon (for reversing the truck in the direction of the officers), reckless evading, carrying a concealed firearm, being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance while armed, and false personation; four misdemeanors including: false identification to police and resisting arrest.

Glinton was also booked for three outstanding felony warrants and two outstanding misdemeanor arrest warrants out of Sacramento Police Department and Sacramento County for a variety of offenses including narcotics possession, fraud, evading, resisting arrest, illegal weapons possession, and violation of probation. 

Police booked the passenger, 27-year-old Kelsey Kathleen Lucius, who declined to provide her city of residence, for identity theft and false personation (both felonies); resisting arrest and false identification to police (both misdemeanors); and two felony warrants out of Sacramento County for check fraud.