WALNUT CREEK — A pair of suspected burglars have been arrested Sunday after a freeway chase and a floor and air search in Orinda the place they crashed, police mentioned.
Police mentioned in a social media posting that the collection of occasions started about 1:30 p.m. Sunday when a person returned to his house off Heritage Courtroom that was within the technique of being renovated. He discovered two males rifling by way of a bed room and he and the suspects exchanged phrases earlier than the suspects fled the scene, police mentioned.
As the person was calling Walnut Creek police to offer an outline of the boys and their automobile, an officer within the space noticed the automobile and tried unsuccessfully to cease it. A data test confirmed the automobile had been stolen earlier within the day in Richmond, police mentioned.
With police in pursuit, the suspects drove onto westbound Freeway 24. The driving force started driving erratically prompting Walnut Creek police to cease the chase within the curiosity of public security, police mentioned.
However as officers exited the freeway at Wilder Highway in Orinda, they noticed that the suspects’ automobile had pushed off the roadway and the suspects had run away into the hillsides of the Siesta Valley Recreation Space.
An enormous search was then launched for the suspects, which included Walnut Creek police and one in every of their canines, and officers with Orinda, Moraga and the California Freeway Patrol. With the help of a CHP helicopter, each suspects — a 34-year-old Bay Level resident and a 45-year-old Santa Ana resident — have been arrested, police mentioned. Police mentioned one of many suspects was handled for ache after fleeing in 105-degree warmth earlier than he was booked. Police didn't say which suspect.
Each suspects have been booked on the Martinez Detention Facility on quite a lot of housebreaking, theft and evading expenses. The older suspect was being held in lieu of $120,000 bail and the opposite in lieu of $50,000 bail.