CLAY TWP — A man is jailed on charges he intentionally rammed his pickup into a car carrying his girlfriend Saturday night.

Not long after, 36-year-old Christopher J. Mann of Boyers deliberately slammed the truck into the side of a state police cruiser, injuring a trooper, investigators said.

Mann was arrested, police said, but not before they forcibly stopped his truck and deployed a Taser after a more than 7-minute high-speed chase that ended in Marion Township.

District Judge Tim Shaffer arraigned the suspect on felony assault and a list of other charges stemming from the violent series of events.

He is being held in the Butler County Prison on $25,000 bail.

“This was a dangerous situation and he placed multiple motorists and pedestrians at risk,” police Lt. Eric Hermick said of Mann. “This was an incident that could have ended in a homicide, not just an injury.”

Police believe Mann started the criminal chain of events shortly before 7:45 p.m. when he and his girlfriend, 34-year-old Linda Carissa Callen of Boyers, got into a “mobile domestic” on Route 308 in Clay Township.

Callen called her mother to advise her of the fight. Callen’s mother headed out in her car to look for her daughter. She soon caught up to the truck and started following it. She also called 911.

At the intersection of Routes 308 and 108, as Mann slowed down, Callen jumped out of his Ford F-150 and ran to her mother’s car, police said

The two woman drove away, still north on Route 308, but this time Mann followed the car.

“He eventually started ramming the back of the car,” Hermick said.

Soon after, troopers in three police cruisers showed up, emergency lights flashing and sirens blaring.

“They intervened, one traveling to the front and one to the rear of the truck,” Hermick said, “but (Mann) negated that and continued to flee.”

Mann in his getaway intentionally drove his truck into the side of Trooper Stephen Rodgers’ cruiser, documents said. Rodgers suffered a minor injury to his right arm.

But he and the other troopers chased after the suspect, with speeds reaching in excess of 60 mph through residential neighborhoods where children were still out playing, police said.

The trooper got the go-ahead to perform a so-called “PIT maneuver” near Routes 308 and 58 in Marion Township.

The Precision Immobilization Technique involves an officer tapping the rear-fender of the suspect’s vehicle and forcing it to abruptly turn sideways toward the direction of travel.

The maneuver causes the driver to lose control and stop.

Rodgers’ cruiser was the lead vehicle in the PIT, which stopped Mann’s pickup. Still, police said, he wasn’t about to give up without a fight.

Rodgers deployed his Taser, hitting the defendant, who was placed in handcuffs.

Mann was not injured but he had to be taken to Butler Memorial Hospital so doctors could remove the Taser probes from his skin, Hermick said.

He was also given a blood test at the hospital. Police suspect he was driving under the influence.

Rodgers did not require hospital treatment and he remains on duty. His cruiser sustained moderate damage, police said.

Mann is charged with aggravated assault, DUI, fleeing or attempting to elude police, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, simple assault and several traffic violations.