CAPITOLA — Officers arrested 4 Bay Space males they are saying led them on a high-speed freeway pursuit in a stolen automobile early Tuesday morning.
The chase started shortly earlier than 2 a.m. on southbound Freeway 1, when the California Freeway Patrol tried to drag over an allegedly dashing driver in a black 2017 Hyundai Tucson. The automobile had been reported stolen out of Oakland earlier this month. Pursuing the automobile from north of Buena Vista Drive in Freedom, the officer adopted the SUV to the Essential Avenue offramp. There, the driving force carried out a U-turn again onto the freeway, headed northbound.
The motive force, later recognized by police as Josue Fernando Valdez-Amezcua, 27, of Oakland, was reportedly evading the CHP in a reckless method, driving at speeds of better than 100 mph and swerving out and in of all lanes.
CHP reinforcements have been ready with tire spike strips unfold throughout the freeway in Capitola and have been in a position to gradual the automobile to a cease on the forty first Avenue onramp. The SUV’s 4 occupants reportedly fled the automobile earlier than they have been apprehended and a Ruger .40-caliber handgun recovered on the identical footpath, in keeping with the CHP.
Lester Jonatan Villatoro, 31, of Oakland, Hector Alexander Garcia-Hernandez, 23, of Oakland and Edward Jimenez, 29, of San Francisco, additionally have been arrested. Villatoro, who additionally was needed on a warrant from the Brentwood Police Division, remained held on the Santa Cruz County Jail on Tuesday afternoon in lieu of $115,000. Garcia-Hernandez and Jimenez confronted allegations of resisting arrest and possessing a stolen automobile and remained held in lieu of $10,000 bail. Driver Valdez-Amezcua faces further allegations of evading police, automobile theft and possessing housebreaking instruments and was held in lieu of $30,000.