The man and woman who police say hit a Sweetwater officer with a car outside the Dolphin Mall Thursday night have been charged in the incident.
Herbert Titus Wilson, 32, and Cassandra Davis, 27, are facing numerous charges including battery on an officer, resisting arrest with violence and fraudulent use of a credit card, according to Miami-Dade jail records.
Police say the pair was involved in a crime at Saks Fifth Avenue inside the mall and tried to flee before they were spotted by a security guard.
"One of the security guards reached to one of my officers that was working here in the parking lot and told him, 'Hey, that's the subjects' vehicle, those are the subjects in the vehicle,'" Sweetwater Police Chief Roberto Fulgueira said.
When the officer approached the pair's black Ford Expedition, Davis hit the gas and struck the officer, Fulgueira said.
"[The officer's] hand prints are still on the hood of the car," Fulgueira said. "He was able to push off and get some away so that she only struck the left side of his body. But she still hit him and flipped him up."
Another officer responding to the scene opened fire on the car, but neither David or Wilson was hit, police said.
Davis was apprehended a short time later in the parking lot. Wilson ran to a nearby hotel, where he requested a taxi and tried to flee the scene, but was foiled by the cab driver.
"We got the cab number and...were constantly in communication via phone with the driver," Fulgueira said. "[The driver] actually did an incredible job and let us right to where he was at."
Wilson was taken into custody a short time later on the 836 expressway near the I-95 interchange.
"She was screaming out of control and cursing, my officers tell me," Fulgueira said of Davis. "But he was too scared. He was probably a little overwhelmed; there must have been at least ten agencies who assisted in stopping the cab."
The injured officer was "bruised up" but was "doing great," Fulgueira said.
Wilson is charged with fraudulent use of a credit card and resisting an officer without violence and was being held on $6,000 bond. Davis was charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, resisting an officer with violence, battery of a police officer and attempting to elude a police officer, and was being held on $27,500 bond.
Both were expected to make their first court appearances Friday, and it was unknown whether they had an attorney.
