A stolen car pursuit from Sausalito to Corte Madera on Tuesday morning ended with a fiery automotive crash and the arrest of 1 suspect.
The pursuit lasted 6 miles and reached speeds of roughly 90 mph, Sausalito police Capt. Invoice Fraass stated in an announcement.
The pursuit started at 8:47 a.m. when an officer recognized a stolen 2007 GMC Sierra on Spencer Avenue frontage street. About eight minutes earlier, police obtained an alert from town’s license plate recognition cameras that the stolen car was noticed on the 300 block of Spencer Avenue.
The car was stolen from Oakland on March 21, the announcement stated.
The officer tried to make an enforcement cease, however the car fled onto northbound Freeway 101. The officer pursued the car and a Marin County sheriff’s deputy joined within the pursuit.
The car exited on Paradise Drive in Corte Madera, the place it crashed right into a concrete divider and light-weight pole within the car parking zone of The Village procuring heart.
Central Marin police spokesperson Margo Rohrbacher stated the car caught hearth after the crash. The suspect, the one occupant of the car, jumped out of the car and led officers on a foot chase by way of the car parking zone of The Village procuring heart in Corte Madera.
The suspect was taken into custody at 9:04 a.m., she stated.
Rohrbacher stated the suspect sustained minor accidents and was taken to a close-by hospital.
Jose Gabriel Oliva-Lemus, 35 of Oakland, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a stolen car, a felony. He was additionally charged with misdemeanor evading cops, hit and run, reckless driving, and obstructing officers. He was discovered to be on lively probation in Alameda County for evading police in a car.