On Sunday November 14th at approximately 02.00 a.m. a Philipsburg police patrol was stopped on the A. Th. Illidge road in the vicinity of Son Latino Night Club, by the lady with initials C.B. born in the Dominican Republic. She stated that shortly before she had been ill treated after an heated argument with Domincan man.
At the same time she pointed out a man who had stepped into a dark colored Hyundai Elantra with dark tinted windows, with intention to drive away. The patrol drove towards this car in order to approach the driver in regard to what the lady had stated. When the patrol ordered the suspect to stop he refused to do so. At the same time the patrol attempted the block his path, however the suspect continued driving forward hitting and damaging the right fender of the police vehicle.
The suspect again, did not stop and drove off in the direction of Dutch Quarter. The patrol followed the suspect in his car and on various occasions ordered the suspect to bring his car to a stop which he did not do. The situation turned into a high speed chase after the suspect refused to stop. The chase ended at the border in French Quarter. Just several meters beyond the border while turning back towards the Dutch side the patrol noticed that the suspect had also turned around and headed back, towards the Dutch side, at very high speed. The patrol noticed that the suspect did not slow his vehicle down and intentionally ramming the police vehicle to escape from being arrested. The officers noting how dangerous and serious the situation had become and fearing for their safety pulled their service weapon and fired several shots at the tires of the suspect vehicle in the attempt to bring it to a stop, however this was also unsuccessful. The suspects succeeded in escaping his arrest. The police vehicle was damaged to the extent that it could not drive any further. Immediately after the incident several members of the gendarmes arrived on the scene and stated that they had seen the suspect vehicle turned back towards the Dutch side because they were busy carrying out a traffic control just a short distance further. After hearing the shots they came towards the border to investigate what was going on. None of the officers were injured during this whole incident. The gendarmes conducted their investigation on the scene after which the damaged police vehicle was turned over to the Dutch police.
The suspect in this case has not yet been arrested. The investigation is ongoing.