A drug bust ended badly in Avalon last Thursday night, with a suspect attempting to run over a police officer and the officer shooting at the vehicle.

Avalon police Chief Tom Kokoski said that officers Walt Johnson and Matt McDanel were working in plainclothes, observing a drug deal occurring in Peach Alley. When the officers approached the car, Kokoski said, identifying themselves as police officers, the driver took off, headed right for Johnson. The chief said that Johnson fired three shots in self defense but did not hit the vehicle.

The vehicle raced off down Peach Alley until the four occupants bailed out, Kokoski said. A foot pursuit netted two of the four.

Facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault and possession of narcotics, are two brothers, Dana Anderson, 22, and Daric Anderson, 21, both of the West End.

The vehicle was registered to an 80-year-old man in West Virginia, Kokoski said, whose son had lent the car to the four involved in the drug buy.

An undetermined amount of heroin was recovered.

In other news from Avalon Police, surveillance by plainclothes officers on June 10 resulted in charges being filed against an Avalon man for resisting arrest. Police say that William Clokey, 19, of Ohio River Boulevard, began running down Chestnut Street when officers attempted to stop him. Police say he threw something in the bushes, but nothing was recovered.

Break-ins involving a number of vehicles appears to be more the work of vandals than thieves, police say. A passerby found the passenger side door of a car on Elizabeth Avenue open on June 12. The owner said the contents of the vehicle were tossed around, but nothing appeared to be missing. A similar situation was discovered that same day in the parking garage at the Tiffany Apartments on California Avenue, where five vehicles had been ransacked without anything being stolen.