HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities are searching for a man accused of crashing into a Houston television station’s news van and then driving off with a police vehicle.
KPRC-TV reports one of its news vans was sideswiped by another car early Monday morning at a downtown Houston intersection.
Photographer Damon Sales said the driver tried to carjack the news van.
When two officers arrived, the unidentified man allegedly pushed one officer down, dragged the other out of their patrol vehicle and drove away with their patrol car.
Police said the news crew and one officer had minor injuries.
They also said a teenager who had been arrested and was in the back of the police vehicle was let out by the suspect a few blocks away.
The squad car was found empty several miles away.
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