Two Arrested After Surrendering at End of Montebello Chase Dec. 26

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

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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.