A parolee who allegedly attempted to hit an officer with his truck during an Orange County pursuit that injured a police dog has been charged with aggravated assault and numerous other counts, officials announced Wednesday.
Antonio Padilla Jr., 37, was also charged with injuring a police animal, evading while driving recklessly, evading a peace officer and driving against traffic, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for the Feb. 26 incident. He also faces misdemeanor hit and run with property damage charges.
Padilla has three strikes on his criminal record. He was convicted of first-degree robbery in 1998 in Orange County; making criminal threats in 2006 in Riverside; unlawful possession of a firearm in 2007; burglary in 2011 in Riverside and inflicting corporal injury in Riverside in 2017, officials said.
On Feb. 18 a Garden Grove police officer pulled Padilla over for speeding. The defendant allegedly started his truck and accelerated toward the officer as the officer wrote the citation. The officer was able to get out of the way.
Garden Grove detectives spotted Padilla again on Feb. 26 in Santa Ana and the defendant led police on a high-speed pursuit to Irvine. Once there, he allegedly got out of his vehicle, carjacked and assaulted a young woman and her brother by dragging her out of her SUV, officials said. Padilla then crashed the stolen SUV and ran away.
Santa Ana police
Padilla faces 120 years to life in prison if he is convicted as charged.
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