Police pursue suspect through Council Bluffs, Omaha
A 28-year-old man suspected of leading police on a two-hour pursue Saturday night that included a carjacking is being held without bail in the Douglas County Corrections Center.
Officer Michael Pecha, a spokesman for the Omaha Police Department, said Sunday that Allen Williams was arrested on suspicion of use of a weapon to commit a felony, use of gun by a felon, robbery, flight to avoid arrest, and on a felony warrant for possession of methamphetamine.
A spokesman at the jail said Williams was being held without bail.
He was arrested about 12:20 a.m. Sunday near 108th and Q Streets after tearing through backyards, fences, stoplights and driving the wrong way on Interstate 80, Pecha said.
Radio dispatches indicated that Williams was taken into custody after turning into a cul-de-sac and being subdued with the aid of a overwhelm gun.
The pursuit began Saturday about Ten:50 p.m. when officers spotted Williams, who was sought in connection with an attack, driving a maroon Dodge Ram pickup truck in the area of John J. Pershing Drive and Ida Street.
He refused to stop, and fled in his vehicle with the police helicopter in pursuit. Stops strips were successfully used by officers during the pursuit.
The suspect then pulled into a gas station at 40th and Cuming Streets where he allegedly threatened a woman with a gun to steal her car, a four-door gray sedan.
Pecha said cruiser officers picked up the pursuit, which traveled through all four Omaha police precincts, as well as Iowa and Sarpy County.
The suspect eventually crashed into the backyard at ten thousand seven hundred seventy nine V St. As the pursuit came to an end, an officer discharged his firearm, but no one was hit, and the suspect was taken into custody.
Pecha said police had been searching for Williams since about 8:30 p.m. Friday when officers responded to a report of an armed domestic disturbance in the area of 39th and Burdette Streets. A 25-year-old woman told police she was by Williams, who had been drinking and using drugs.
She was taken to Creighton University Medical Center with non-life menacing injuries.
The Omaha Police Department is investigating, as required by policy, because an officer’s gun was fired.
Williams has twice served prison terms in Nebraska, most recently in two thousand eight when he was sentenced to seven to ten years for possession of methamphetamine and for three counts of theft.