Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ALHAMBRA - Two women in their 20s were detained after crashing during a high-speed chase, Sheriff’s homicide investigators said Sunday. The women were contacted by an Alhambra Police officer at a storage facility on the 2000 block of West Mission Road January 5 around 3:30 a.m. for a burglary investigation. The driver of a vehicle allegedly accelerated at an Alhambra officer, forcing the officer to open fire, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau. The driver was struck in an extremity. She crashed while turning south onto Sixth Street and struck a retaining wall, Sheriff’s homicide investigators said.
It appeared a storage unit at the facility was burglarized, Sheriff’s homicide investigators said. The passenger was injured in the crash. Both suspects, only described as Hispanic women, were hospitalized for their injuries. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ALHAMBRA - A woman was injured by police gunfire Sunday and officers took two suspects into custody after a pursuit collision, Alhambra Police said.
The crash occurred in the area of West Mission Road and South Sixth Street around 3:30 a.m. January 5. Alhambra Police could not provide more details. The investigation is now being handled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau. The woman wounded by gunfire received a injury considered not life threatening, according to Deputy Trina Schrader of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Information Bureau. No officers were injured. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide detectives are en route to investigate the police shooting, according to Deputy Michelle Sanchez of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. The exact sequence of events of the incident are not publicly known yet. Written by AARON CASTREJON | CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - A woman behind the wheel of a reported stolen vehicle was arrested after a quick pursuit and foot chase from Alhambra to El Sereno, police said.
The chase began just before 1:40 a.m. after an officer on patrol located the stolen vehicle in the area Main Street and Huntington Drive. The driver refused to stop and led police on a quick pursuit on surface streets, sometimes at speeds around 70 miles per hour, according to Alhambra Police and police radio traffic. The vehicle was reported stolen from the area of Stoneman Avenue and Main Street, Alhambra Police said. The pursuit wound into the El Sereno neighborhood of Los Angeles and into an alleyway where the suspect fled on foot, but she was quickly arrested. Claudia Hernandez, 28, from Los Angeles, was booked on suspicion of grand theft auto, felony evading and a misdemeanor narcotics charge, police said. Hernandez is being held in lieu of $110,000 bail. She is scheduled to appear in Alhambra Superior Court May 21. |
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