www.denverpost.comRyan Stone, above, was wanted on drug charges when he stole a car in Longmont, Colo., early Wednesday and led police on a high-speed chase for more than an hour.
A wanted maniac led police on a wild, high-speed chase through Colorado Wednesday after he stole a car from a gas station and then managed to carjack two other drivers during the pursuit.
The alleged thief, Ryan Stone, was arrested at around 8 a.m. after he crashed at intersection outside Denver and tried to escape police by fleeing through the snow on foot, local news footage showed.
A Colorado State Trooper was injured in the chase, and was taken to a Littleton hospital with non life-threatening injuries, local ABC News reported.
One source told the station the trooper suffered a broken leg.
Authorities said the pursuit began at around 6 a.m. when Stone, 29, swiped a maroon Ford Edge SUV with a 4-year-old child in it from a Bradley's gas station in Longmont.
The child's mother had left the car idling while she went inside to pay for gas, authorities said.
Stone, who cops said was wanted on drug charges, jumped inside and sped off, heading south on I-25.
As police and news helicopters tailed the vehicle, the driver tore through rush hour traffic, veering onto the shoulders to pass other cars.
After exiting the highway, he eventually ended up on I-76, where he headed off a tan minivan travelling on an exit ramp.
Stone, who was dressed in a gold and black jacket, leaped out of the Ford and pulled the driver and another person out of the van, harrowing news footage showed.
He then sped across an embankment and roared through the eastbound lanes of I-76 headed the wrong way.
Authorities said the little boy was left behind in the Ford and was unharmed.
Longmont police were working to reunite him with his mother, a spokesman told local ABC.
In the van, Stone came close to ramming several cars head-on and dodged police stop sticks before ending up on E-470, where he clipped several more cars and gaurdrail, damaging the van.
Minutes later, he crashed into another car, this time a silver sedan.
When that car stopped, Stone crept up to the driver's door and yanked a woman out.
The woman lunged for the door as Stone sped off.
About a mile later, he flew into an intersection near Peoria St. and Lincoln Ave., about 20 miles south of downtown Denver, and slammed into another car, crippling the silver sedan.
He fled on foot through the snow and tried to hop a chain link fence, but couldn't get over.
As officers closed in, he lay on his stomach and was quickly pinned down and cuffed.
Longmont police spokesman Commander Jeffrey Satur told the Associated Press Stone was wanted on a 'dangerous drug' charge after he didn't show up to a court hearing March 4.
Stone was with his girlfriend when she was stopped in an apparently stolen car in Longmont Tuesday night, Satur said. It's not clear why he wasn't arrested then.
Stone was 'definitely running like a person who did not want to go back to jail,' Satur said.
It wasn't yet clear if the driver in the last collision was injured.
With News Wire Service.
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