Police seek pair in ramming incident
?Southwest Regional police are searching for two people who used a pickup truck to ram two police officers at a location in Washington County earlier this month.
Police said the incident occurred shortly after midnight March 19 when officers were called to an area known as the slate dumps in Bentleyville for an alleged party involving underage drinking.
Police said that when Lt. John Loughner and Patrolman John Mitaly arrived, they spotted multiple people fleeing the area on all-terrain-vehicles.
Police said the responding officers then spotted a man and woman getting into a black Ford Ranger pickup truck. Officers said they tried to stop the truck from leaving the location but the man driving the truck refused to stop and struck Loughner with the pickup truck, knocking him onto the hood of the vehicle.
Police said that officers continued to order the pickup truck to stop, but the driver failed to do so and struck Loughner a second time and also struck Mitaly with the vehicle as he sped from the scene.
Both officers suffered minor injuries.
Police said the driver of the pickup truck was a white man between 18 and 21 years old. Officers said he is about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. Police said he was clean-shaven, with light, curly brown hair. He was wearing a gray T-shirt and jeans. Police described the woman in the truck to be about 18 years old, about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing about 100 pounds.
Anyone with information regarding the identity or whereabouts of the suspects is asked to call police at 724-929-8484.