Palo Alto Police arrested two people suspected of felony fraud after they rammed their truck into two patrol cars on Friday night. Inside the suspects’ vehicle, police found a loaded handgun, narcotics, and fraudulent identification cards — and officials later discovered the vehicle itself had also been fraudulently obtained using another person’s identity, according to the police department.

At around 5 p.m. on Friday, 39-year-old Emmanuel Glinton allegedly attempted to withdraw money from an account that didn’t belong to him at First Tech Federal Credit Union, located at 3000 El Camino Real. Police were alerted by an employee at the bank, and when officers arrived at the scene, Glinton reversed his vehicle and struck the front of their patrol car. He then drove over a curb and attempted to flee — ultimately reaching a dead end on the 400 block of Leland Avenue. Cornered by police cars, Glinton again reversed his vehicle, hitting a second patrol car with enough force to deploy its airbags and spark a fire in the engine compartment, police said.

Officers in the first car were uninjured, but those in the second suffered a broken hand bone and abrasions to the face. Glinton and the passenger in his car, 27-year-old Kathleen Lucius, were uninjured.

Glinton and Lucius were booked at the Santa Clara County Main Jail for multiple charges, including — for Glinton — two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, reckless evading, carrying a concealed firearm, being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance while armed, and false personation, among four other misdemeanors. Lucius is under arrest for identity theft, false impersonation, resisting arrest and providing false identification to police.

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Both suspects were also found to have multiple outstanding felony warrants from Sacramento County — Lucius for check fraud, and Glinton for narcotics possession, fraud, evading, resisting arrest, illegal weapons possession, and violation of probation, authorities said.

Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call their 24-hour dispatch center at (650) 329-2413. Anonymous tips can be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent via text message or voice mail to (650) 383-8984.