SOUTHINGTON, Conn — Two Waterbury men were arrested on larceny, narcotics and weapons charges Thursday evening following a wild incident where a stolen car was pinned against a building. One man tried to run and the second jumped in the driver’s seat and tried to take off before being blocked in again. 

At 7:43 p.m., the Southington police were notified by a license plate reader that a stolen vehicle had just crossed into Southington. Police said officers found the Nissan Maxima in the parking lot of 1664 Meriden Waterbury Road With two men who were later identified as Damon Davis, 28 and Tiomonte Morgan, 27, both of Waterbury.

Video released by police shows officers entering the parking lot and attempting to block the car in to prevent it from taking off. Police said Davis was driving the stolen vehicle and rammed the police vehicle used to block him in. He continued ramming the police vehicle, attempting to break free, hitting a vehicle parked nearby, occupied by the driver, who was a customer of a nearby business.

On the video, the man police identified as Davis can be seen getting out of the Nissan and attempting to run from the scene. He was quickly apprehended by police. Davis was found to be in possession of a handgun with an obliterated serial number, 70 bags of fentanyl, and nearly $2,000 in cash. 

At the same time, police said Morgan got into the driver’s seat and backed the vehicle up, hitting the commercial building and another unoccupied vehicle parked in the parking lot, attempting to escape.

The video shows the officer dragging Davis into the business. Police said Morgan drove a short distance through the parking lot before ramming another Southington police cruiser. As police surrounded the Maxima, they said Morgan attempted to escape by ramming between two police vehicles, until the stolen vehicle became disabled. 

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Police said they went through the driver’s side window and removed Morgan from the vehicle. 

Officers discovered a loaded Glock handgun on the driver’s side floor of the vehicle, later determined to be stolen and modified to operate as a fully automatic weapon. Inside the vehicle, officers recovered 610 individual bags of fentanyl packaged for sale, 6.6 grams of powdered fentanyl, 7.1 grams of powdered Cocaine, 1.5 ounces of Crack Cocaine, and other drug paraphernalia related to drug sales. 

It was later determined that the same car was involved in an incident in Middletown where a cruiser there was damaged. 

Damon Davis was charged with larceny 1st degree, reckless endangerment 2nd, interfering with officer, criminal possession of firearm, weapons in motor vehicle, obliterated serial number, criminal mischief 1st, and two counts of possession of with intent to sell.

Tiomonte Morgan was charges with criminal attempt at assault 2nd, larceny 1st department of police services, criminal possession of firearm, possession of machine gun, weapons in motor vehicle, criminal mischief 1st degree, stolen firearm, reckless endangerment 1st, interfering with officer, two counts of possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of high capacity magazine.

Both were held on $1 million bond.

Doug Stewart is a Senior Digital Content Producer at FOX61 News. He can be reached at [email protected].

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