Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor CITRUS - Two men fled into a home Monday once they reached a dead end at the termination of a pursuit, but both surrendered after an hours-long barricade. The driver of a black Kia Sorrento is a known gang member with a felony weapons warrant. Officers attempted to pull him over in Montebello, but he refused and led officers on a chase on surface streets, freeways and ended with a crash into the home near Azusa, according to Michael Chee, director of public affairs and information technology with Montebello. The suspect was chased on to the northbound 605 freeway from the Whittier area just before 7 a.m. The pursuit took to the eastbound 210 freeway where the suspect exited onto Citrus Avenue in Azusa. After virtually circling several neighborhoods, the driver stopped at a dead end at Rockvale Avenue just south of the 210 freeway. The driver and his female passenger fled on foot through a residential yard and into a home in the 6900 block of Cedarglen Drive. The occupied home where the barricade took place was known to the driver, Chee told SGV CityWatch. Family members arrived near the scene. A deputy shuttled them to a command post and phone contact was made with those inside the home in a plea to get them to surrender without any trouble. Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Bureau arrived to get the suspects to surrender peacefully, which the suspects did. The second suspect was arrested for an outstanding warrant, Chee told SGV CityWatch. Two other occupants of the home were briefly detained, but not arrested. Later in the day, Montebello detectives wrote and served a search warrant for the home where the suspects were barricaded and weapons were found, Chee told SGV CityWatch. The suspects’ names were not readily available. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor CITRUS - A suspect allegedly carrying a modified AR-15 was caught after running from deputies in unincorporated Azusa.
The suspect was spotted in the 5000 of Fenimore Street, according to Lt. Elisabeth Sachs of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s San Dimas Station. “Deputies were patrolling the unincorporated area of Azusa when they encountered a male with unknown object in his hands. After further investigation, the deputies recognized the object to be a modified AR-15 rifle. The subject tossed the weapon and ran,” according to the Sheriff’s San Dimas Station in a social media post. Deputies contained the area and with the help of a K-9 unit and the Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Bureau, the suspect was found and arrested. *NOTE: Despite speaking personally with four different supervisors at the San Dimas Station over a period of several days, this reporter was unable to obtain the day and time of the incident and the suspect’s booking information. |
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