Arrest in police SUV ram

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UPDATE: 6:13 p.m.

Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after finding the vehicle suspected of ramming a police SUV at a residence on Stafford Road. 

The man who was arrested was inside the home. 

RCMP say the suspect faces a number of potential charges in connection with the collision and flight from police. 

A witness at the accident said the man in the vehicle would not get out of his car when the officer asked him to, and stalled it as he attempted to flee.

The witness said the officer then broke the man's window, in an attempt to pull him out, before the the car was started and backed into the police vehicle multiple times. 

UPDATE: 4:30 p.m.

Multiple witnesses now tell Castanet the suspect vehicle that rammed a police SUV in Kelowna was in fact a Nissan Sentra.

Around midday, RCMP provided confusing information about the vehicle's description, variously calling it a Nissan X, which doesn't exist, an RX-7 (a Mazda vehicle) and leaving doubt as to whether the vehicle was a car or SUV.

The only vehicles Nissan has manufactured in recent years with an X in the name are the X-Trail and Xterra, both SUVs, yet police described the suspect vehicle as a sports car.

A Sentra is an economy car.

ORIGINAL

An RCMP vehicle has been rammed in Kelowna, and police are seeking the public's help in finding those responsible.

According to Kelowna RCMP, police were following the suspicious flat black Nissan sports car when it intentionally rammed into the police SUV near Dilworth Drive and Enterprise Way about noon and then took off. 

Police are looking for the vehicle, which has a damaged driver's side window and missing or covered plates.

The vehicle was last seen near Fitzpatrick Road.

Anyone with information is asked to the call the RCMP immediately.