Updated 6/28/2021 5:43 PM
A Bartlett man was arrested Sunday after he hit a police officer and left the scene while driving under the influence, according to a Bartlett police news release.
Just after 10 p.m. Sunday, two Bartlett police officers on motor-assisted bicycles were doing neighborhood patrols on South Bartlett Road when a pickup truck struck one of the officers.
The female officer who was hit suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. She taken to St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates and later released.
The truck and its owner 48-year-old Bartlett resident Jason A. Deckard were later located on Morning Glory Lane near Struckman Boulevard, police said. Deckard has been charged with a felony for leaving the scene of a personal injury accident and two misdemeanors for driving under the influence and failure to give aid in an accident involving personal injury, the news release said.