MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Miami Gardens police say they’ve identified and arrested a man who rammed one of their officers during an illegal November street takeover.
Loay Ihsan Hussein, 20, of Miramar, now faces six felony and two misdemeanor charges after being taken into custody on Monday.
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According to an arrest report, an officer who responded to the Nov. 30 street takeover at Miami Gardens Drive and Northeast Second Court turned on his lights and sirens to disperse the crowd.
Afterward, police said a driver in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk came at him and tried ramming his cruiser. As the officer tried retreating, they said the SUV driver again tried striking the cruiser — this time, successfully. In the midst, police said participants lobbed fireworks at the officer’s cruiser.
They said there were three people inside, all wearing ski masks. The report states that the Jeep had been stolen from Pembroke Pines and was later discovered in the 3600 block of Southwest 52nd Avenue in Pembroke Park.
According to the report, the owner’s girlfriend told investigators that “minutes after getting home with the Jeep,” friends told her that they saw the Jeep on local news outlets and on Only in Dade in videos taken during the street takeover.
“(She) said she immediately called the Pembroke Pines Police Department and advised them of the situation,” the report states.
A detective with the then-Miami-Dade Police Department told investigators that he spotted an Instagram photo of a man in a ski mask standing in front of the Jeep, police said. According to the report, it was posted to Hussein’s account.
Authorities said fingerprints on the Jeep’s sunroof matched Hussein’s.
Taken into custody on Monday, police said Hussein told them “he was not going to speak unless he had his attorney with him.”
Officers arrested him on a host of charges, including aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault on a law enforcement and aggravated fleeing and eluding.
His bond was listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records.