A Yukon man is jailed and facing serious charges after ramming police cars during a traffic stop.
Early Friday morning, police received a report of a vehicle driving erratically near Integris Canadian Valley Hospital. A Yukon police officer pulled over the suspect vehicle at approximately 1:45 a.m. The driver, identified as Laddie Louis Polasek, 55, stopped his vehicle upon seeing the police lights, but then threw his pickup into reverse, slamming into the police car behind him before driving away.
He then led police on a low-speed chase through Yukon before pulling over into a parking lot. When a police officer pulled in behind him, Polasek reportedly put his car in reverse again, and again slammed into the patrol car behind him.
An officer fired a shotgun at Polasek's vehicle, shattering glass, but leaving the suspect uninjured. Police were able to pull the suspect from his vehicle and place him under arrest.
Polasek was transported to the Canadian County jail on complaints of assault with a deadly weapon, attempting to elude police and running a road block.
The man's criminal history shows charges for threatening to perform an act of violence, trespassing after being forbidden, and assault on a police officer. All charges were ultimately dismissed, and Polasek's guardian sued on his behalf for wrongful arrest. That lawsuit was also dismissed.
Since then, a relative of Polasek was granted a protective order barring the man from contacting him or coming to his residence for at least five years.
The prior charges against Polasek were all misdemeanors. This time, it seems he could be in much bigger trouble. Assault with a deadly weapon is a felony. According to 21 O.S. 652, "Any person who commits any assault and battery upon another, including an unborn child . . . , by means of any deadly weapon, or by such other means or force as is likely to produce death, or in any manner attempts to kill another, including an unborn child . . . , or in resisting the execution of any legal process, shall upon conviction be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding life."
The Canadian County District Attorney's Office has not yet filed charges against the suspect in this case.
