Updated: 5:58 PM CDT May 5, 2021
ST. LOUIS A police officer suffered minor injuries when a stolen car crashed into the unmarked police car he was driving Wednesday morning.
Police said the officer was driving in St. Louis Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood a little after 11 a.m. When the officer drove through the intersection of Lotus and Hamilton avenues, his unmarked police car was struck on the driver s side by a stolen car that ran a stop sign.
A police department spokeswoman said two men jumped out of the car after the crash and ran off. The driver, a 20-year-old, was arrested a short time later, but the passenger got away.