Suspects rammed a stolen SUV into a police car multiple times, ending with one vehicle partly on top of the other, before they were arrested this week, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
Torey J. Tuttle, 38, and Nicole M. Webster, 33, were both arrested Tuesday on existing felony warrants after the incident, police said in a written release.
On May 17, a 2005 green Chevy Suburban was stolen from the Spenard Recreation Center, but the current owner couldn't file a police report because they didn't have the car title or the bill of sale, police wrote.
Although the person couldn't prove that he or she was the owner, "it was clear the subjects who were arrested were not," Renee Oistad, police spokeswoman, wrote in an email.
Four days later, a family member of the SUV's current owner called police, saying that the stolen Chevy was parked in front of an apartment on the 600 block of East 16th Avenue. The family member told police that someone was lying down in the back seat.
Around 11 a.m. Monday, police arrived to find two people inside the parked Chevy.
Two officers used their cars to block in the Chevy, one behind the other, and then began announcing that the driver needed to exit the vehicle. A third police car pulled up alongside the stolen Suburban, Oistad wrote.
The driver put the car into reverse and backed into the patrol car. Then the suspect drove forward and again put the Suburban in reverse, moving faster and hitting the same police vehicle. The police car slid back, hitting the officer vehicle behind it. The driver then drove forward again and reversed once more, hitting the cars "hard enough to make them both move," police wrote.
An officer then used his patrol vehicle to pin the Chevy's left rear tire in place, police said.
The Suburban's "final resting place" was with its right rear end on top of the police car, and its left tire still pinned in place, Oistad wrote.
Tuttle came out of the car first, followed by Webster, police said.
Oistad said she didn't have an estimate of the damage to the police vehicles, although she wrote that all three officer cars and the Chevy were damaged. Nobody was hurt.
Tuttle and Webster were scheduled to have their first court appearance at the Anchorage jail on Wednesday afternoon.
Webster has an open case from 2017 in which she faces felony vehicle theft charges. A warrant was issued April 27.
A warrant for Tuttle's arrest was issued May 9, after he failed to appear in a 2016 case in which he faces 12 charges, including felony vehicle theft, online records show.