PETALUMA – Last Friday evening at approximately 11 pm, Petaluma Police Officers responded to multiple 911 calls regarding reports of a domestic situation between a husband and wife on Lindberg Circle.
As officers arrived on scene they saw the suspect leaving a residence and walking towards a vehicle. Officers ordered the man to stop, but he ignored them and got into the vehicle and drove at the officers, causing one of them to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. As the suspect drove away, another responding officer turned onto Lindberg Circle with his patrol car emergency lights and siren activated. The suspect drove directly at the patrol car, only narrowly avoiding a collision with it.
Lindberg Circle, the scene of the original police call.
The suspect led officers on a 1.5-mile vehicle pursuit in the vicinity of the residential area at speeds in excess of 60 MPH, and through multiple stop signs. The suspect eventually drove back to his residence and stopped in his driveway. K-9 Officer Farinha and his partner Jimmy immediately contacted him. The suspect did not yield to Officer Farinha’s commands to surrender, and then took up a fighting stance by clenching his fists and yelling profanities. Once Officer Farinha told him that the K-9 would be used to subdue him if he did not cooperate, the man immediately surrendered.
After all parties were interviewed it was determined that the suspect had physically assaulted his wife and 10-year-old son. His wife sustained minor facial injuries, scratches to her neck, and a dog bite from one of the family dogs during the altercation. The 10-year-old sustained a laceration to his hand and arm. He also had complained of pain to his neck and back from being thrown to the floor by the suspect.
The suspect was identified as Darren Holloway, a 46-year-old Petaluma resident. He was booked into Sonoma County Jail on $500,000 and faces charges of felony domestic violence, felony assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, misdemeanor child abuse, felony evading a peace officer and misdemeanor resisting a peace officer.
