(Nov. 9) -- A high-speed police chase overnight ended with two men being attacked by police dogs, one of them was an innocent bystander.
The incident started when police pulled over a car near Boulder Highway and Flamingo early Tuesday morning for a traffic violation. But the man inside that car sped off and went to a nearby apartment complex. That's when a man who was standing outside was mistaken for the suspect and was attacked by a police dog.
Robin Wernli will likely need crutches to get around for quite some time. "I can't even move my legs," he commented.
At 1:30 a.m., he was looking inside the trunk of his car when he looked up and saw a police dog coming straight for him. "I saw the dog coming. And I knew if I would run the dog would get me. So, I stopped and I was holding onto the rail and the dog was just biting my legs," Wernli said.
But police say Wernli kept running when they told him to stop and that's why they sent the K-9 after him.
Cassie Carney heard her fiancé’s screams from inside her apartment. When she got outside she couldn't believe what she saw. "He was on the ground right there, dog was biting him. He was in handcuffs, dog was still biting him," she said.
Police initially thought Robin Wernli was the man who led them on a high-speed chase just minutes earlier. But the man they were actually looking for was Arsen Minasyan. While Wernli was on the ground in handcuffs, Minasyan snuck inside the couple's apartment trying to hide from police.
Carney said, "He ran in my place and he was going into my rooms and my dog attacked him."
Minasyan was also attacked by a police K-9 after police realized the man they really wanted was inside the apartment. Both men had to be taken to the hospital.
Robin Wernli just hopes the puncture wounds in both his legs heel quickly so he can get back on his feet without needing a crutch to lean on.
Arsen Minasyan was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on charges of evading police, battery on an officer and possession of marijuana.
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