A man alleged to have tried to crash a car carrying his child and domestic partner later led Sheriff’s Deputies on a high speed pursuit through Twentynine Palms.
On February 8, the Sheriff’s Department reports that a car driven by Daniel Ammerman, a 21 year-old resident of Yucca Valley, steered into traffic as part of a domestic disturbance. A female victim told deputies that she was driving a car with Ammerman and their 2 year-old child, when Ammerman threatened to kill her, grabbed the steering wheel, and attempted to crash the car. Deputies say the car skidded into oncoming traffic, but did not hit any other vehicles, at which point Ammerman abandoned the woman and child at a hospital parking lot and drove away.
Deputies say they attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle, but Ammerman failed to yield, leading them on a 15 minute high speed pursuit that ended with a crash. They report Ammerman then fled on foot, before deputies caught up with him and took him into custody.
Daniel Ammerman was arrested for suspicion of willfully endangering a child, and reckless evading, and he was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail on $260,000 bail. Ammerman was arrested and convicted of evading peace officers in August of 2022, and was on probation at the time of his most recent arrest.
