Duo injures a driver, steals his car and causes several accidents: service dog “Hancock” tracks down men in the backyard (ZDDK24)

Kassel - A violent attack on a driver and a spectacular escape with his car and several accidents ended that night with the arrest of the two 21 and 30 year old suspects.

“Hancock”, the service dog of Police Chief Inspector Stefan Weber of the Mitte police station, tracked down the two men, who had meanwhile left the car and fled on foot, in a backyard at the Wolfsschlucht. Those arrested have been in police custody since then.

Possible accident victim wanted

As the officers in charge of the investigation from K 35 of the Kassel Criminal Investigation Department, which is responsible for robbery crimes, report that a man is said to have been hit by car while escaping. This person is asked to report to the Kassel police. The man had stood in front of the car at the traffic lights on Lutherplatz and wanted to prevent further escape.

Drivers massively attacked

The attack by the two suspects on the 43-year-old driver from Hann. Münden happened on Thursday night around 12:30 a.m. At that time he stopped his car in a parking bay on Schillerstrasse to make a phone call. As the 43-year-old reports, the men suddenly opened the doors, immediately kicked and hit him and demanded cash.

Injured, he was able to escape from the car, the two men started the car and sped away in the direction of Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Straße. There they turned right and stopped at the red traffic light at Lutherplatz. The car rolled backwards several times into a Mercedes that was parked behind it. They then drove on towards Scheidemannplatz and caused the second accident there.

During a 180-degree turn, they damaged several traffic signs. In the area of ​​Kölnische Straße. They caused the third accident when they illegally turned right from Kurt-Wolters-Straße into “Kleine Rosenstraße”. Once again they damaged a traffic sign there.

German Shepherd “Hancock” kept suspects at bay

A witness who followed the escapees gave a radio patrol involved in the search the crucial information about the location of the getaway car and the two men's escape on foot. The suspects had parked the accident car in a parking lot on Kölnische Strasse, an extension of Spohrstrasse, and then fled on foot towards Scheidemannplatz.

As part of the search, officers from the Mitte police station finally managed to arrest the two suspects in the backyard of a building on Wolfsschlucht. Service dog “Hancock,” a two-and-a-half-year-old German Shepherd, tracked down the men who were hiding from the police behind garbage cans there under the cover of darkness. After the free-roaming German Shepherd discovered the men, he kept them at bay by barking loudly until the patrol rushed over. The 21 and 30 year old suspects were arrested without resistance.

The two men are not strangers. You have already appeared on several occasions for violence, property and drug crimes. They are currently in the “Central Police Custody” of the Kassel police and are due to be brought before a judge at the Kassel District Court later in the day, who will decide on their further whereabouts. They were apparently drunk and under the influence of drugs at the time of the crime.

The investigators from K 35, which is responsible for robbery crimes, are particularly asking the possible witness who was hit by the getaway car at Lutherplatz to contact the North Hesse Police Headquarters in Kassel on 0561 - 9100.

Source: Police Headquarters North Hesse – Kassel