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MURRAY — A man in a stolen car who police say rammed an officer's vehicle and hit an innocent bystander was arrested Thursday.
Lutolofi Marcel Maama, 27, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of assault on an officer, having a stolen vehicle, failing to stop for police, negligently operating a vehicle resulting in injury, failing to remain at the scene of an accident, driving on a denied license, drug possession and five other crimes.
On Thursday, at about 4:45 p.m., police spotted a stolen car pulling into a parking lot near 4100 South and Main, according to a police booking affidavit. As an officer approached and turned on his emergency lights, Maama "put his vehicle into reverse and rammed the front of my patrol vehicle with the rear of (his) pickup," the officer wrote in a booking affidavit.
Maama then drove forward, jumped the curb and headed south at 4000 South and Main. He ran a red light at 3900 S. State and hit another vehicle, the affidavit states. A 52-year-old woman was injured and taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, according to police.
The impact from the crash caused Maama's vehicle to roll. He then got out of his wrecked pickup truck and ran toward the parking lot of a nearby restaurant where police caught up with him and placed him under arrest, according to the affidavit.
Officers learned Maama had been driving on a revoked license and had allegedly used fentanyl and methamphetamine earlier in the day, the affidavit states.
