Three police officers were hospitalized overnight after a 19-year-old suspected car thief rammed a stolen Porsche into them during a chase on City Island.
The incident began unfolding around 8:40 p.m. Thursday near 24th Street and 40th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, where cops responded to a report of a stolen car, according to the police.
Officers spotted the white Porsche Panamera and tried to pull it over, but the driver sped away.
The luxury car with a likely price tag of more than $100,000 then turned up on City Island in the Bronx, where the driver, identified as Anelka White, allegedly struck an officer near the intersection of City Island Avenue and Horton Street.
He then slammed the Porsche into an NYPD vehicle, injuring two more officers inside, before being arrested.
Videos posted on the Citizen app showed two of the cops wearing neck braces being loaded into waiting ambulances just steps away from the wrecked cars.
A wrecked white Porsche Panamera at the scene of a crash on City Island. Citizen
A police officer is loaded into an ambulance after being injured during a chase involving the stolen Porsche. Citizen
Three officers suffered minor injuries after being rammed by the suspect. CitizenAll three cops were taken to an area hospital to be treated for minor injuries and were expected to recover.
White, from Queens, was arrested on nearly a dozen charges, including robbery, assault on a police officer, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident, fleeing from an officer, resisting arrest and reckless driving.
White has an extensive criminal history that includes a laundry list of criminal charges related to multiple car thefts in the Bronx, according to court records.
