AUSTIN, Texas — A man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly drove a stolen SUV off the road and directly at a group of four police officers in Central Austin, according to an arrest affidavit.
Alan James Clark, 37, faces four counts of aggravated assault against a public servant, all first-degree felonies, along with charges of evading arrest and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
According to the affidavit, an officer first spotted Clark acting suspiciously in the parking lot of the Baymont motel at 5816 N. IH-35. Clark fled in a red Chevrolet SUV before the officer could initiate a traffic stop.
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The officer found Clark’s vehicle a short distance south on the service road, where four other officers were conducting an unrelated traffic stop. As Clark approached the officers, he abruptly veered off the road, jumped a curb, and drove through a grassy median directly toward the group, the affidavit states.
Officers said they heard tires screeching and had less than a second to run out of the way. The affidavit states Clark’s vehicle went airborne after hitting the curb and came within a foot of striking one officer.
Clark then drove the wrong way on Airport Boulevard, ran multiple red lights at high speed and knocked down a street sign before abandoning the vehicle in a parking lot on Burns Street, the affidavit states. He fled on foot but was quickly detained.
No injuries were reported. Clark was booked into the Travis County Correctional Complex. He is being held on a cumulative $40,000 bond.