Officers injured as suspect vehicle flees in south Las Vegas — PHOTOS

Four people were arrested after a Metropolitan Police Department officer was injured while being dragged by a fleeing vehicle in south Las Vegas on Friday, police said.

Metro Capt. Ryan Wiggins said the officer responded to a clothing theft call at around 7 p.m. Friday evening at a commercial complex in the 4100 block of Blue Diamond Road. An area just outside the main entrance of a Target store was marked off with crime scene tape Friday night.

Wiggins said in a media briefing early Saturday morning that the officer found a person who matched a description from the call. The suspect resisted arrest and later got into a vehicle that attempted to flee at a “high rate of speed” with the officer still holding on to the suspect, Wiggins said.

The vehicle eventually crashed into an area of landscaping near the shopping complex.

The officer, who was not identified as of early Saturday, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to University Medical Center, Wiggins said.

After the suspect vehicle attempted to flee, a box truck collided with a Metro vehicle on Blue Diamond, which caused a short stretch of the road to be closed Friday night, Wiggins said. A second officer was also transported to UMC and treated for minor injuries as a result of the crash involving the box truck, Wiggins said.

“Four suspects were taken into custody related to this incident,” Wiggins said.

Wiggins said the officers would recover.

“We don’t know the specifics (of the injuries) as of right now, we just know that, thankfully, our officers are going to be OK,” Wiggins said.

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