masameet
02-20-2008, 01:44 AM
Must've been an hour-long chase ...
Bridge chase ends with arrest in Antioch
Contra Costa Times (http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_8308515)
Article Launched: 02/19/2008 07:45:26 PM PST
ANTIOCH -- A 17-year-old Stockton boy with no driver's license led California Highway Patrol officers on a pursuit over the Antioch Bridge into the city Tuesday afternoon, striking five other vehicles before Antioch police arrested him.
Antioch police acting on a citizen's tip found and arrested the boy on suspicion of felony evading. Officers found and seized a loaded semiautomatic handgun the boy had thrown down after the pursuit ended at Hillcrest Avenue and Deer Valley Road, said CHP spokesman Scott Yox.
One of two other occupants in the car ran and threw down another loaded semiautomatic handgun in a parking lot near a Rite Aid store at 3353 Deer Valley Road, Yox said. That man escaped. A woman in the car was questioned and released.
The pursuit began when a South Sacramento CHP officer tried to stop the boy for speeding in a red Pontiac Grand Prix on Highway 160, a few miles north of the bridge.
After crossing the bridge and entering Highway 4, the boy exited at Hillcrest Avenue. He sideswiped another car on the offramp, another at Hillcrest Avenue and East Tregallas Road and struck three more at Hillcrest Avenue and Deer Valley Road, Yox said. A fourth vehicle there was damaged by debris.
Bridge chase ends with arrest in Antioch
Contra Costa Times (http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_8308515)
Article Launched: 02/19/2008 07:45:26 PM PST
ANTIOCH -- A 17-year-old Stockton boy with no driver's license led California Highway Patrol officers on a pursuit over the Antioch Bridge into the city Tuesday afternoon, striking five other vehicles before Antioch police arrested him.
Antioch police acting on a citizen's tip found and arrested the boy on suspicion of felony evading. Officers found and seized a loaded semiautomatic handgun the boy had thrown down after the pursuit ended at Hillcrest Avenue and Deer Valley Road, said CHP spokesman Scott Yox.
One of two other occupants in the car ran and threw down another loaded semiautomatic handgun in a parking lot near a Rite Aid store at 3353 Deer Valley Road, Yox said. That man escaped. A woman in the car was questioned and released.
The pursuit began when a South Sacramento CHP officer tried to stop the boy for speeding in a red Pontiac Grand Prix on Highway 160, a few miles north of the bridge.
After crossing the bridge and entering Highway 4, the boy exited at Hillcrest Avenue. He sideswiped another car on the offramp, another at Hillcrest Avenue and East Tregallas Road and struck three more at Hillcrest Avenue and Deer Valley Road, Yox said. A fourth vehicle there was damaged by debris.