Suspected Car Thief Held After Fast Chase
- Share via
FOUNTAIN VALLEY — A suspected car thief was arrested Tuesday night after taking police on a 35-mile freeway chase at speeds topping 100 m.p.h., authorities said.
The chase began on the Long Beach Freeway in east Los Angeles about 8:15 p.m. when a California Highway Patrol officer noticed a car that was believed to be stolen, CHP Officer Shirley Gaines said.
The suspect led authorities in cars and a helicopter southbound, eventually turning onto the San Diego Freeway. The chase ended when the suspect exited on Magnolia Avenue in Fountain Valley, Gaines said.
The suspect was not immediately identified.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
