Crime & Safety
Suspects In Multiple Carjackings Get Away Following Wild Police Pursuit Across Los Angeles County
The suspects drove nose-to-nose with a white big rig and carjacked the rig, a tanker with mud flaps that indicated it contained milk.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Two people suspected of carjacking a dark pickup truck in the Lancaster area and a big rig in the Sylmar area led law enforcement on a pursuit through downtown Los Angeles seizing at least one other vehicle before getting away.
The California Highway Patrol was notified at about 10:05 p.m. Sunday that Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were pursuing a dark pickup truck that was carjacked in the Lancaster area, Officer Elizabeth Kravid told City News Service.
At some point early in the pursuit, the suspects had fired a gun at CHP officers but no one was hit, according to broadcasters.
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Television helicopters showed the pursuit on the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway through Granada Hills. The truck was driven off the freeway onto surface streets and then onto the San Diego (405) Freeway, southbound in northbound lanes until the suspects stopped and tried to carjack a white sedan whose driver locked the doors. It appeared the left front tire of the pickup truck was flat.
The suspects drove nose-to-nose with a white big rig and carjacked the rig, a tanker with mud flaps that indicated it contained milk.
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The suspects drove the 18-wheeler from the northbound San Diego Freeway to the Golden State Freeway and eventually wound up southbound on the Hollywood (101) Freeway through Universal City and Hollywood before merging onto the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway in downtown.
The suspects drove the big rig through the streets of downtown. They eventually abandoned the tanker and seized a white pickup truck under the 10 Freeway at Alameda, which they drove on Mission Road from Lincoln Heights toward Boyle Heights.
The pursuit ended just before midnight near Mission Road and Cesar Chavez Avenue, where the suspects ditched the stolen truck and fled.
Video showed the white pickup truck being driven under a freeway overpass and the empty truck coasting to a stop on the other side while a black sedan took off toward either the 10 or 101 freeway.
It was not immediately known whether the suspects commandeered the black sedan.
— City News Service
