A 16-year-old Woodland boy is in Yolo County Juvenile Hall today after allegedly stabbing his family dog, then breaking out of a police patrol car in an incident that led to two officers being injured, authorities said.

Woodland police Corporal Darren Imus said officers were dispatched at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday to a home on Yolano Drive, where relatives reported that a juvenile suffering from mental-health issues had stabbed the family’s labrador retriever.

“Officers arrived to find that the 16-year-old juvenile subject had left the scene prior to their arrival,” though he was found at a home in the 1300 block of East Oak Avenue, Imus said in a news release. The teen was put unrestrained into a patrol car for transport to Woodland Memorial Hospital for a mental-health evaluation.

“During the drive to the hospital, the subject broke out a back side window of the police vehicle and fled on foot,” Imus said. Officers chased the boy to the 600 block of Gibson Road.

There, officers tried unsuccessfully to talk the teen back into the patrol car, then, following a struggle, deployed a Taser that Imus said had little effect on the boy. Two officers reportedly sustained non-life-threatening injuries for which they were treated at a local hospital.

Officers eventually lodged the teen at Juvenile Hall on suspicion of resisting officers with force and battery on officers, both of which are felony charges, Imus said.

Police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the attack on the dog, which Imus said survived and is recovering from its wounds at the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department’s animal services division. Animal cruelty charges are pending in the case, he added.

— Reach Lauren Keene at [email protected] or (530) 747-8048. Follow her at www.twitter.com/laurenkeene.

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