An tried site visitors cease in Fairfield early Thursday escalated right into a pursuit into Suisun Metropolis and ended with a crash and two arrests.
Occasions unfolded round 4 a.m. when a Fairfield officer noticed a automobile fail to make an entire cease at a cease signal then velocity up in an effort to place distance between it and his patrol automotive, officers stated.
The officer activated his overhead lights and sirens and tried a site visitors cease, however the driver accelerated, officers stated in a social media publish, “often altering instructions and hovering via a purple mild at an intersection” because the automobile headed west in direction of Pennsylvania Avenue.
The motive force then sped south on Pennsylvania, entered Freeway 12, then headed again into residential areas of downtown Fairfield earlier than heading again in direction of Suisun Metropolis.
“The automobile continued to run cease indicators and drive at excessive charges of velocity, making unsafe turns in full disregard of public security – till it was concerned in a rear-end collision with an unoccupied automobile within the 1000 block of Fundamental St., Suisun,” the publish continued.
The motive force, later recognized as 25-year-old Angel Yanez-Estrada of Oakland, took off operating. His passenger, Bianca Gonzalez, was left behind. No age or metropolis of residence was obtainable for her.
A search of the automobile revealed objects — together with a generator price an estimated $2,500 — reported stolen throughout a automobile housebreaking in Fairfield about an hour earlier.
An officer on the housebreaking scene acknowledged the markings on the generator, which matched these of the stolen merchandise.
Each suspects have been later arrested and booked into Solano County Jail.
Yanez-Estrada faces costs together with evading police, felony probation violation, receipt of stolen property, conspiracy to commit a criminal offense, hit and run with property injury and injury to property.
Gonzalez faces costs of possession of stolen property and conspiracy to commit a criminal offense.