By Karen Ruiz
Daily Mail
February 17, 2017
A police officer was dragged alongside of a Connecticut road after pulling over a man who was suspected of robbing $190 worth of beer.
The Newington cop stopped 37-year-old Joshua Coonradt after receiving reports of shoplifting at Best Market supermarket on Saturday. An employee reportedly saw a man and woman walk out of the store with the unpaid beer, Fox 61 reported.
The two took off in a green Honda Civic before authorities arrived at the scene, but another officer spotted the car and pulled the man over on Wells Road.
The officer, who was not named, soon learned the beer thief was armed when he reached for a gun on the dashboard. A struggle ensued between the two before Coonradt took off in his car.
The suspect drove at a high speed dragging along the police officer on the road for 150 yards, Fox 61 said.
The officer was eventually able to free himself and sustained minor injuries.
Coonradt's car was seized and he was arrested on Wednesday by Hartford Police.
He has been charged with assaulting a police officer, third-degree larceny, sixth-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny in the sixth degree, reckless endangerment in the first degree, reckless driving, misuse of registration plates, operating a motor vehicle while under suspension, and disobeying the signal of an officer.
His alleged accomplice was arrested and identified as Sandra Weeks, 31 who said she knew the suspect who goes to an area in Hartford 'to buy crack.'
Weeks was charged with sixth-degree larceny, but was released on $5,000 bail.
Coonradt is said to sleep in his car near Wethersfield Avenue and known to police to sell stolen items to nearby grocery stores.
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