The car that ran away from the police only stopped on a spiked carpet in Lahti. A man punched a security guard in front of a bar in Riihimäki. The day of the police in Häme was eventful.
Häme police patrols had more than 250 tasks and 18 arrests during the last 24 hours, the police say in their press release.
The patrol was looking for an armed man in a restaurant in Heinola’s Jyrängö at half past twelve on Friday night. The man was not found in the bar, but the police soon found a poorly hidden long-barreled gun in the backseat of a nearby car.
A 40-year-old woman who was driving the car handed over the car keys to the police. In addition to the unauthorized rifle, something else was found in the car: a wanted man was hiding in the trunk. The man, under 40 years old, had not returned to prison from his prison leave. The police arrested the woman and the man.
An hour earlier, the motorcycle police measured the speed of a car traveling east at 115 kilometers per hour on the new bypass road in Lahti. The speed limit on the road section is 80 kilometers per hour.
The driver ran away from the police, driving at a considerable speed. Heading towards the center of Lahti, a man without a driver’s license pulled over at the Levo cemetery at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. The speed limit on the road is 40 kilometers per hour.
The escape eventually ended up in a spiked carpet at the Karistonkatu exit.
The police arrested a 40-year-old man who has been caught twice for driving without a license in the past year. The police also found drug paraphernalia in the man’s possession.
Violence in Hämeenlinna and Riihimäki
The patrol investigated an assault in a hotel in Hämeenlinna on Friday a little before eleven o’clock in the evening. According to the police, the man, who was nervous about the argument, had hit his girlfriend several times in the face and strangled her.
The police caught up with the man at the hotel entrance. The man began to strongly resist arrest. The police handcuffed the man to secure the transport. The man continued his resistance at the police station \”with poor success\ the police say in their press release.
The police suspect the man of assault and resisting an official.
Riihimäki’s night was also violent. The police investigated the abuse of a security guard in front of a bar located in the city center a little before four in the morning.
A man in his thirties hit a security guard in the face when he tried to remove an intoxicated woman from the restaurant, the police say. The orderly supervisor used OC spray to subdue the man. According to the police, the security guard received injuries that required treatment.
The police arrested the suspected abuser.