Reckless Driving Suspect Busts A Move At End Of Police Pursuit
With several officers outside of their vehicles, pointing their guns at him, the suspect shuffled a little, then started to dance.
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With several officers outside of their vehicles, pointing their guns at him, the suspect shuffled a little, then started to dance.
Three people were taken into custody, and at least one person was taken to a hospital.
The chase started just after 11 p.m. in Arleta. It's not clear what the suspect was initially wanted for.
Several streets near South and Olive were sealed off as a SWAT team scours through vehicles in the area in search of the suspect, who police say has a felony warrant.
Joseph Matthew Machado, 30, was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center for evaluation and treatment after he was finally taken into custody at the end of a wild chase in a stolen ambulance.
California Highway Patrol officers began chasing the man, identified later as 25-year-old Jason Knapp of Rancho Cucamonga, on suspicion of DUI. Knapp already has two DUIs on his record, according to police.
A police pursuit of an assault suspect ended Thursday with a successful PIT maneuver on an off-ramp off the 170 Freeway in Universal City.
A Honda Civic apparently lost control while trying to turn onto Beach Boulevard and crashed into the restaurant. While it is a 24-hour location, no customers were inside the Jack in the Box dining room at the time and no employees were hurt.
Police officers opened fire on the car at about 12:30 a.m. in the 600 block of 12th Street when the man and the woman tried to run after the car's tires were flattened by a spike strip.
One of the passengers was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. The driver has been hospitalized, and a second passenger suffered minor injuries.
A woman who had been sitting in the back seat was pronounced dead at the scene. Two men and the second woman were hospitalized with serious injuries.
A brief pursuit ended when A Honda Civic crashed into an SUV at 48th Street and Vermont Avenue at about 2 a.m. Wednesday. The two women inside the SUV are OK, but the trio in the Honda Civic did not fare as well.
The video shows the officer driving at high speed, weaving between cars stopped at a stoplight, asking for assistance from a police helicopter and frantically repeating "shots fired, shots fired" to a dispatcher while pursuing a black SUV.
Police say officers had tried to pull over the driver because she was driving with no headlights on, on the wrong side of the street. But the driver took off, and the chase was on.
The three men had broken into the home through a kitchen door window, but it's not clear if the window had been unlocked or if they broke it.
The burglars had smashed through a plate glass window to get into the store, which was closed at the time.
The LAPD patrol vehicle crash happened near Sherman Way and Woodman Avenue, while the stolen U-Haul crashed into a fence a littler further away. The suspect ran away from the van and has been reported running on nearby train tracks.
The shuttle bus, which was empty, was taken about 6:20 p.m. Thursday in the area of Barranca Parkway and Harvard Avenue in Irvine and led police on an approximately 30-minute chase. It ended when it crashed into a freeway guardrail in Costa Mesa.
After three men were reported committing an armed robbery at a Walgreens on South State College in Anaheim, police spotted the suspects near Orangethorpe and State College, touching off a pursuit.
A second suspect in a carjacking and car chase has been taken into custody after a large police presence descended on a Reseda neighborhood
"I got a stolen black-and-white with a rifle and a shotgun in it," an officer reported over the radio.
A Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic crew was in the process of transferring a seriously ill patient to California Hospital Medical Center at about 12:30 a.m. when the crew's unoccupied ambulance was stolen from the parking bay
The driver struck another vehicle stopped at a red light, and ricocheted into the crosswalk, where a freelance news photographer had been standing.
Police were chasing a stolen Dodge Charger throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties Monday night.
A man is in custody Friday after allegedly shooting at police officers at the end of a brief pursuit in North Hollywood.
