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UPD searches for man who rammed police vehicles with stolen car to flee

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Law enforcement officers are searching for a man used the stolen vehicle he’d been sleeping in to ram the police vehicles that had boxed him in.

Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Harley Gregory Welsh, of Taylorsville. In the last year, Welsh has been convicted of third-degree felony theft by receiving stolen property, class A misdemeanor theft and intentional criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor.

Police got a call about 9:45 a.m. from someone reporting a suspicious vehicle with a man sleeping inside, near 4900 S. Howick Street (about 150 West) in Millcreek, according to Unified police Detective Ken Hansen.