Driver Speeds Through Willington, Rams Dog Cruiser In Tolland: Report

WILLINGTON, CT — The driver of a car involved in a wild scene that began with a speeding incident in Willington and a rammed police canine cruiser in Tolland was to appear in Rockville Superior Court Tuesday.

He had been held over the weekend on a $250,000 bond.

The incident unraveled at 11:12 p.m. Friday when a state trooper in Willington attempted to stop a blue Subaru Impreza with a Maine registration plate that was traveling at a high rate of speed and swerving on River Road, which is state Route 32, according to an arrest report.

At first, the driver, identified as a Connecticut resident — 27-year-old Jacob Klotzer, of Bolton — stopped, but then sped up in an effort to elude the trooper, according to an arrest report.

Troopers in Tolland were able to locate the vehicle traveling westbound on Tolland Stage Road (state Route 74) at a high rate of speed and again attempted to stop it, but Klotzer intentionally rammed the Subaru into an "occupied" state police canine cruiser before it became disabled in a smoking mess on Tolland Stage Road near Evergreen Drive.

No injuries were sustained by state police personnel or Klotzer, according to an arrest report.

Klotzer was taken into custody and transported to the Troop C barracks, where he was charged with:

• Interfering with an officer
• Criminal Attempt at assault on a public safety officer
• Second-degree reckless endangerment
• Driving under the influence
• Reckless driving
• Engaging police in pursuit
• Operating a motor vehicle without insurance
• Operating an unregistered motor vehicle
• Misuse of plates
• Failure to maintain the proper lane
• Following too closely
• Failure to obey a traffic control signal
• Failure to display plates