Suspected Drug Dealer Shot in Confrontation With Deputies : Newbury Park: An arrest attempt at a restaurant ends in a chase and the man’s capture. Five others are also held.

Narcotics detectives shot and wounded a suspected cocaine dealer in Newbury Park as he sped toward them in his truck, rammed an undercover police car and led them on a high-speed chase, sheriff’s deputies said Thursday.

Deputies cornered Jeffrey K. Hedlund, 26, at his house three-quarters of a mile away in the Wednesday night incident. Hedlund was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and drug charges.

They also arrested three adults and two teen-age girls inside the residence on a variety of drug charges after finding cocaine there while executing a search warrant, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said.

Hedlund was listed in stable condition in the intensive-care ward of Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks with gunshot wounds in his jaw, neck and arm.

The two sheriff’s deputies, who were not injured, were given routine three-day administrative leaves, Lt. Kathy Kemp said.

Deputies are still investigating the incident, in which an undercover car was damaged, another parked car was wrecked, and skid marks were left in the parking lot of the In-N-Out Burgers restaurant where undercover officers said they saw Hedlund selling cocaine, Kemp said.

“He attempted to evade arrest without much regard for anyone else’s safety,” said Kemp, head of the sheriff’s major crimes division, which also investigates officer-involved shootings. “The other vehicle--it was a VW bug--was knocked about 20 feet. There was nobody in it, and if there had been, there would have been serious injuries.”

Kemp said that narcotics detectives following a tip staked out the parking lot Wednesday night and allegedly saw Hedlund sell someone 10 one-gram bags of suspected cocaine from his Toyota 4Runner pickup truck about 9:40 p.m.

When the deputies walked toward the truck, wearing sheriff’s jackets and identifying themselves as officers, Hedlund accelerated, narrowly missing them, according to authorities.

Senior Deputies Bret Uhlich and Patrick MacCauley fired four shots, three of them hitting Hedlund, whose truck then smashed into the unoccupied Volkswagen and rammed the undercover car before being driven away.

Undercover deputies in three cars chased MacCauley to his house on Maple Road, where other deputies were staking out the residence. The officers stopped him there and wrestled him into submission before taking him to the hospital.

Hedlund was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to sell cocaine, selling cocaine and possession of cocaine for sale.

Deputies then executed a search warrant they had obtained on Hedlund’s residence and reportedly found small amounts of cocaine.

Arrested in the house were Mark Miller, 41, of Newbury Park on suspicion of conspiracy to sell cocaine, possession of cocaine and being under the influence of cocaine; Frank Petracek, 32, of Woodland Hills on suspicion of possession of cocaine and being under the influence of cocaine; Daniel Belanger, 32, of Woodland Hills on suspicion of being under the influence of cocaine, and two unidentified Newbury park girls, ages 16 and 17, on suspicion of possession of cocaine.

Lt. Kemp said detectives did not catch the person Hedlund sold drugs to before he fled the restaurant parking lot.