A police car was attacked with a sledgehammer as pub raiders made their getaway a pub in Sherwood.
Burglars Keith Collison and brothers Mark and Lee Carter had just taken more than £1,000 from a gaming machine inside The Samuel Hall in Mansfield Road when police swooped to capture them.
The men were trying to leave in an Astra driven by Collison when officers in their car attempted to block their path after 4am on February 19 this year.
The Astra mounted the kerb and got past the police car. They headed onto Edwards Lane followed by more police in their cars.
At the junction with Valley Road, the getaway car stopped, and Mark Carter got out - still wearing a balaclava - and swung the sledgehammer at a police car occupied by two officers.
Hal Ewing, prosecuting, told Nottingham Crown Court, where the men were jailed for the break-in, that Mark Carter hit the windscreen of the police car, cracking the glass.
"He moved to the side of the car and, looking at the officer, he hit her side window, causing it to smash and she was showered with glass," added Mr Ewing. "She believed he would hit her head with the sledgehammer. She described herself as shaking."
The police driver pulled the car forwards. He had worked as a police officer for nine years and it was the highest level of violence he had experienced.
The Astra then rammed another police car and hit a traffic light post and drove over a pedestrian crossing.
Collison, 51, of Beck Crescent, Mansfield, and Lee Carter, 33, of Columbia Street, Huthwaite, were arrested.
But Mark Carter, 37, also of Columbia Street, raised the sledgehammer towards a pursuing officer. He was still holding the hammer when a second officer discharged his taser but it was ineffective.
He was arrested when he jumped over a fence.
He received a total of four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended prison sentence, burglary, threatening with a sledgehammer, criminal damage and possessing a prohibited weapon - a stun gun at his home.
Barrister, Ronan McCann, who represented both Carters, said: "The background regarding both brothers is drugs."
He said the stun gun belonged to a friend who had asked Mark Carter to charge it.
Lee Carter received a community order for two years after he pleaded guilty to burglary.
Judge Steven Coupland, who sentenced the three men, said Lee Carter has a substantial degree of learning difficulties.
He was also given a nine-month drug rehabilitation requirement and 15 rehabilitation activity days.
Collison received three years and two months in prison and a driving ban for six years and two months.
He pleaded guilty to burglary, dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified and having no insurance.
