Man, 19, charged with ramming Pleasant Hill officer with BMW

PLEASANT HILL — A 19-year-old man has been charged with assaulting a Pleasant Hill policeman who was attempting to arrest three robbery suspects after witnessing a strong arm robbery at a local shopping center, court records show.

Kuanye Perkins was charged on Halloween with one count of second-degree robbery and one count of assault on a peace officer with force likely to produce great bodily injury. He is being held in the Contra Costa jail system without bail, court records show.

Police identified Perkins as the driver of a BMW that rammed an unmarked Pleasant Hill police car during a Sept. 27 incident. The officer witnessed the BMW’s three occupants rob a person in a Toyota of $1,980 he’d just withdrawn from a nearby ATM at the Crossroads Shopping Center, police said.

When the officer in the unmarked police car attempted to block the BMW’s exit from the parking lot, the BMW driver allegedly rammed the vehicle multiple times, causing a door to slam on one of the officer’s ankles. One of the officers called out, “Stop, police,” before the ramming, according to authorities.

Perkins was identified as a suspect because the BMW was registered to his father, and because security camera footage showed him abandoning the vehicle in Richmond after the ramming, according to police.

Police identified a second of the three robbery suspects as 19-year-old Samarie Flucus. She has been charged with second-degree robbery and violating parole, and is out of custody, according to court records.