Video obtained by NBC10 shows the moment a driver intentionally crashed into a police officer outside a hotel in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, investigators said.
The ordeal began on Friday, Oct. 24, at 10:19 a.m. when Springfield Township Police reported that a white Mercedes G-Wagon fled from an attempted car stop at a high speed. Springfield Township Police didn’t pursue the vehicle but instead reported it to neighboring police departments.
That same morning, a Whitpain Township Police sergeant received information that 21-year-old Dalton Janiczek of Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, had threatened to blow up a police department in Chester County, according to the criminal complaint. The sergeant, who was already familiar with Janiczek, then heard a radio transmission from a police officer who said he had tried to pull over the suspect in his Mercedes G-Wagon for a traffic violation on Route 202 near Jolly Road. Janiczek allegedly fled at a high speed and the officer did not pursue…