Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) officials were forced to deploy firearms twice in pursuit of suspected drug dealers Monday. The suspects were traveling by truck towards Harku, southwest of the capital, and were apprehended after the PPA shot the vehicle s tires out – though not before another truck unconnected with that crime or any other had already been waylaid in the same manner.
The suspects were thought to be en route to the border crossing point at Ikla, on the Estonian-Latvian frontier, but the PPA intercepted the vehicle while it was still in Harju County.
The first truck was halted on the Tallinn-Pärnu highway, after members of K-Commando, the PPA s SWAT team, shot a tire out. The truck had failed to stop after the PPA had signaled several times for it to do so, and a chase had ensued. ....