Product shelves inside the Grandview grocery are pushed askew after a car rammed the building Tuesday. Cami Cromer

Product shelves inside the Grandview grocery are pushed askew after a car rammed the building Tuesday. Cami Cromer

Car plows into west Port Angeles grocery

PORT ANGELES — Police have arrested a 25-year-old man after the car he was driving plowed into the front of Grandview Grocery at the corner of C and Eighth streets.

The 7:15 p.m. Tuesday incident left extensive damage to the wall behind the checkout and coffee bar area. The inside of the store was strewn with debris from the wall as well as food and merchandise, the Port Angeles Police Department reported.

Arrested for investigation of drunken driving, vehicular assault, making false statements to a law enforcement officer and driving without a license was Brice Mbili-Ambamba, a native of Cameroon and resident of Port Angeles, police said.

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Store clerk, Shana Menlove, 22, was behind the counter at the time of the incident with another employee, Jordan Cromer, 26.

Menlove was trapped with her ankle pinned in the debris between the car, the broken wall and the counter area. She was taken to the Olympic Medical Center emergency room in a private vehicle after being given first aid by two customers as Cromer ran outside to check on passengers of the vehicle.

No report on injuries of Mbili-Ambamba or a passenger in the car was given.

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