Officers injured in car chase

Two IU Police Department officers were injured Saturday in a car and foot pursuit across campus that finally ended in the backyard of an off-campus house.\nOfficers chased non-student Armando Gutierrez after he fled in his car during a traffic stop, police said. Officers Shannon Bunger and Randall Frye suffered minor injuries and were released from Bloomington Hospital Saturday night.\nGutierrez, wanted in Evansville for burglary and failing to appear in court, was taken into custody and is being held at the Monroe County Jail.\nAt 8:38 p.m. Saturday, IUPD officer Brice Boembeke pulled over a Maroon Ford Crown Victoria driven by Gutierrez in front of 801 N. Jordan Ave. Boembeke said he pulled him over for going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone.\nThe license plate came back not matching the car driven by Gutierrez, IUPD Shift Commander Sgt. Don Schmuhl said. Gutierrez refused to let Boembeke see his identification and fled the scene, prompting Boembeke and other IUPD units to give chase.\n"It was just like, I can't believe he's actually running," Boembeke said.\nGutierrez, 19, proceeded north on Jordan Avenue and turned west on 17th Street at speeds exceeding 70 mph, Schmuhl said.\nIUPD said while Officer Frye attempted to deploy stop sticks -- a device used to deflate the tires of cars in a pursuit -- to stop the car, Gutierrez rammed Frye's squad car on the passenger side, injuring Frye's back.\n"I had no time to think," Frye said. "And after he it me, all I thought was, 'We have to stop him.'"\nFollowing the collision, Gutierrez moved his car around Frye's squad car and traveled down 17th Street, where he turned on Fee Lane and into the Briscoe Quad circle drive. Gutierrez then fled his car on foot. \nAccording to police reports, Gutierrez was pursued by IUPD officers as he ran west between Briscoe and McNutt Quads. \nAfter running about 100 yards, Gutierrez hid in a dumpster in the back lot of McNutt.\nRemaining in Gutierrez's car were two unidentified women -- one an IU student -- who were questioned and released. One of the women revealed Gutierrez had a friend who lived in the 600 block of North College Avenue. \nIUPD notified the Bloomington Police Department, who then proceeded to the address to apprehend Gutierrez. When BPD arrived, Gutierrez fled through the back door of the residence and began another foot chase that ended when IUPD Sgt. Tim Lewis and a BPD officer found him hiding in the backyard of a house in the 200 block of West 12th Street. \nSchmuhl said IUPD will charge Gutierrez with resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, battery resulting in injury and leaving the scene of an accident.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.