BALDWIN PARK — A man who crashed head-on into a Baldwin Park police officer as he was fleeing while intoxicated in a stolen car last year was sentenced Tuesday to more than 14 years in prison, officials said.

David Perez, 22, of Baldwin Park pleaded ‘no contest’ in Pomona Superior Court and was immediately sentenced to 16 years and 4 months in prison, court officials said.

“We are glad that this suspect, who shows no regard for the well-being of others, is off the streets so he can’t do this to someone else,” Baldwin Park police Lt. David Reynoso said.

Police were pursuing Perez in the early-morning hours of July 16 when he crashed, head-on, into a a patrol car being driven by a Baldwin Park police officer on Merced Avenue near Frazier Street, police said at the time of the crash.

The officer suffered a badly broken femur and other injuries in the crash, officials said.

“It was a pretty traumatic injury,” Reynoso said. The officer has been unable to return to work since.

“The officer is currently rehabilitating and working hard to return to police work,” the lieutenant said.

In court Tuesday, Perez admitted to evading police causing injury and driving a car without the owner’s consent, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison said. Charges of DUI causing injury and possession of methamphetamine were dismissed.

Perez suffered minor injuries in the crash and was treated before being booked into jail, police added.