Burglary Suspect Who Hit Cop With Car Arrested: Pleasanton Police

PLEASANTON, CA — A man suspected of hitting and injuring a police officer Wednesday with a car while fleeing from a burglary in the Vintage Hills area of Pleasanton was arrested, police said. On Friday, detectives served a warrant at the home of Hayward resident Christian Alexander Ayala. Police said they found stolen firearms, high capacity magazines, ammunition, stolen property, and methamphetamine during a search of Ayala’s home.

Ayala, 27, has prior arrests for burglary, weapons violations and drug sales in the Bay Area, according to police. Ayala was arrested on suspicion of resisting a peace officer resulting in serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of stolen property, and possession of methamphetamine.

Police were called around 5:23 p.m. Wednesday by a homeowner who received a motion alert from his security system with surveillance footage showing a male ransacking his house in the 700 block of Montevino Drive in Pleasanton. Responding officers saw a man inside a Honda Accord at the home, but the driver sped off south on Montevino, police said.

At 5:38 p.m., second officer spotted a vehicle matching the Honda's description at the Montevino and Crellin road intersection, got out of his patrol car and verbally ordered the Honda driver to stop, police said.
Instead of stopping, according to the agency, the driver accelerated and drove directly at the officer, striking him before fleeing west on Crellin, the department said.

Investigators are still searching for the car used during the alleged assault. The car is a gray 2014 Honda Accord with California license plate 7HGH558. The vehicle may also have a blue and white Hayward Honda dealer paper plates and an Uber sticker on the upper front windshield.

The injured officer, whose name was not released, was transported to a local hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the police said. He was discharged from the hospital and was home recovering, the Pleasanton Police Department police said Thursday.

Anyone with information about the car or the incident is asked to call Pleasanton Police Department.

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Photos courtesy Pleasanton Police Department

Susan C. Schena, Patch Staff contributed to this report.