(KAIR)--An Atchison Police officer was injured attempting to stop a moving vehicle.
Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson said an officer attempted stop a vehicle at 6th and V Streets shortly after 11:00 Wednesday night for a traffic violation.
Wilson said when the vehicle stopped in the 600 block of V Street the driver, identified as 21-year-old Atchison resident Matthew Carpenter, refused to roll down his window to converse with the officer.
Eventually, he said Carpenter allowed the vehicle to roll down the street, which struck a parked vehicle.
Wilson said the officer sustained an injury to his arm as he reached into the moving vehicle in an attempt to get it stopped.
Carpenter was arrested in the 12-hundred block of South 7th Street for fleeing and attempting to elude, driving wrong way on one way street, interference with law enforcement, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
He was booked into the Atchison County Jail, where he remained in custody Friday morning.
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