By Jay Tokasz
Source The Buffalo News, N.Y.
Two Buffalo Police officers were injured early Thursday morning while responding to a trespassing call on Blake Street.
The officers, who work out of E district, saw a male and a female in the back of a vehicle in a driveway as they responded to the emergency call around midnight, according to a news release.
They ordered the occupants of the vehicle to unlock the doors and open the windows. Instead, the male jumped into the driver’s seat and started the vehicle, police said.
The driver then drove recklessly forward and in reverse to try and get away, including driving through shrubs and a fence and striking a pole in the backyard of a home on Kerns Avenue, police said. Both defendants eventually were apprehended when the vehicle stopped. Police said they also recovered approximately 2.7 grams of suspected crack cocaine, a scale, and $1,823 in cash.
Police said Larry Rogers, 34, of West Seneca, resisted being handcuffed during an arrest. Rogers was charged with second-degree assault; first-degree reckless endangerment; two counts of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance; third-degree criminal mischief; second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia; second-degree obstruction of governmental administration; and resisting arrest.
Kayanna Lee, 23, of Buffalo, was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance; second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia; and second-degree obstruction of governmental administration.
The two officers who were injured while attempting to arrest the defendants were not identified in the news release. They were taken to Erie County Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, as was Rogers.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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