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A privileged Pennsylvania punk rammed his Mercedes G-Wagen into police — including an officer he struck three times even when the cop was already on the ground, authorities said.
Dalton Lee Janiczek, the 21-year-old son of a prominent Pennsylvania lawyer, is now facing attempted-murder charges over last week’s violence, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
Janiczek is accused of first fleeing officers in Whitpain Township just outside of Philadelphia around noon Friday when they tried to pull him over for a routine traffic infraction.
Janiczek steered his high-end SUV over the center median on Skippack Pike and was able to elude cops — for a while, prosecutors said.
The suspect was then spotted in his vehicle at a Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel in Plymouth Township 40 minutes later, officials said.
As cops in a patrol car descended on him, Janiczek threw his luxury ride into reverse, “struck the patrol vehicle several times” and then aimed the massive SUV at one of the officers, authorities said.
“Janiczek accelerated directly at the officer, attempting to hit him, and the officer discharged his firearm,” the DA’s office said in a statement. “Again, Janiczek accelerated the vehicle, this time striking the officer, causing him to fall.
“As the officer attempted to administer a tourniquet to a leg wound, the Mercedes circled back around the lot and struck the officer three more times as he laid on the ground,” the office said.
The violence only ended when Janiczek slammed his SUV head-on into a police car and was finally taken into custody, prosecutors said. Two officers were injured in the mayhem.
Janiczek — who graduated from La Salle College High School, attended Loyola Marymount University and was a member of the school’s men’s rowing team as a freshman, records show — was arraigned Saturday.
He was charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and other raps and is being held without bail pending a return court appearance Nov. 4.
The injured officers were taken to a local hospital, where one underwent surgery. Both were listed in stable condition and are expected to survive, Fox affiliate WTXF-TV reported.
Records show that the suspect is the son of Lee Janiczek, a partner with the Pennsylvania law firm of Lee Janiczek, and grew up in a spacious home in Ambler, Pa., worth more than $1.4 million.
His parents did not respond to calls for comment from The Post on Sunday.
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