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HAMMOND — The driver of a heavily damaged semi was taken into custody Monday after hitting several police squads and cars in several communities and leading police on a two-state pursuit that lasted 51 minutes.

The 44-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, man was arrested at 11:38 a.m. in the 3800 block of Orchard Drive in Hammond after three police officers shot at the semitruck’s tires in an attempt to stop it, Lt. Richard Hoyda said.

One officer used a Taser to subdue the man just before he was taken into custody, and he was taken to a local hospital for treatment, police said.

The pursuit began at 10:44 a.m. in Whiting, after an officer tried to stop the truck at Front and 119th streets for being off a truck route, Hoyda said. The driver struck two Hammond squads, parked cars in Whiting and got in two crashes in Calumet City, police said.

The pursuit traveled through Whiting, Hammond, East Chicago, Lansing and Calumet City, police said.

Residents along Orchard Drive from Kentucky Street west to where the truck stopped said they heard the semi slowly rumble by with flat and blown-out tires and heard several gunshots.