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Alex Cabrero ReportingTaylorsville has one less criminal on the road tonight. He's in jail after smashing into a police officer's car while trying to get away.
The suspect was renting a storage unit in Taylorsville. The owner of the facility noticed what he thought was a lot of strange things going on in there, so he called police. After a three-day investigation he's now caught, but it wasn't easy.
If you know this man, 22-year old Roy Meyer, then you know he's been in trouble before. Now he's in trouble again. Police say they followed him out of his storage unit this afternoon, but somehow Meyer noticed the undercover officers in unmarked cars following him, so he took off.
At one point he was at a dead-end, so he turned around and smashed into an officer's pick-up truck and got away. Later on, at about 55th South and Redwood Road, an officer decided to bump him using a pit maneuver, and spun him out.
That's how he was finally caught. Police say this was a man they had to catch, even if it was a high-speed chase through town.
Sgt. Rosie Rivera, Taylorsville Police Dept.: "When you get a suspect that's actually willing to take an officer's life, then it changes. And during the pursuit, they call out their speeds. They call out whether the traffic is light. The officer that was able to pit the suspect felt at the time he did it, it was safe enough."
Give police credit, no one was hurt during the chase.
Meyer has been in trouble before for drugs; police suspect that's what was going on in the storage unit. Now he has a lot more charges he's facing, including aggravated assault on a police officer.
