FULL CHASE: Burglary suspects fleeing CHP get stopped by PIT maneuver in Inland Empire

uh when it gets to those regions of the surface when it gets especially dangerous, lights on, uh, signs and there are also pedestrians walking, staying on the freeway, at least you stay between other vehicles, but they're really speeding up now that they have that ride. open shared. lane so sitting around 75 pushing up to 80 miles an hour right now where they're going we don't know the CHP is right on top of them and eventually they're going to run into more traffic like right now this is really where it really starts to get stuck here on the east side of the 210 freeway and we heard it started on Lakeview Terrace he's slowing down behind a car in the carpool lane the car right in front of him is coming oh I see he's coming to a stop because of slow traffic he's kind of locked in there right now, but it's going to come out and as you can see, they're not going to force the issue, but they're staying behind them and there are air units overhead as well. but the CHP has now taken over this pursuit, keep in mind they are robbery

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, that's at least that's the preliminary report.

Another CHP vehicle is moving into position while they were working, still weaving from the carpool lane into the center lanes and the CHP right behind it and they are finding these open spaces, maybe it's because they hear the lights and sirens. come and people are trying to get out of the way, like that vehicle that's there, opening it up and this Mercedes that's moving pretty fast when it can, so they're still bent. trying to escape they are on the shoulder once again using that

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to get around some of the difficult traffic, yeah it looks like I thought they might be pulling out but no they are just going to go backwards. into the carpool lane, it's amazing how much they can

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and in this traffic, you know when you're driving on a normal day you can't go 10 miles an hour, we're not breaking the law either, so these guys keep going. in The Far Side uh, so far they haven't seemed too intent on taking Surface readings or getting off the freeway, staying on the freeway, if they continue in this direction of course they'll eventually hit the desert and hit Riverside and San County Bernardino, but so far they intend to stay on the 210 eastbound, not get off and just get around all this traffic that's going to last quite a while, this traffic comes to you, you know, as you're heading out into the desert and right now they're passing through Mount Olive Road and I don't know if there is an exit on the way.

There are other freeways on the way, but I think they're stuck on the eastbound 210 for now. Well, as you can see there. There are big tractor trailers, a lot of people moving around, and you know, we're back to that high-traffic time when kids are going back to school, etc., summer is basically over in a big swath of Southern California, so what traffic really builds up. It usually does it during the fall and winter, so coming out of the summer, then, the head, the thin things are gone, the heavy things are back and here we are in a

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and watching someone trying to maneuver through all this traffic at 42 miles per hour right now.

At least at a reasonable speed, it's not as dangerous as it was before he has a shared lane, it's pretty empty, yes, so they've been able to maneuver through all of this, but the traffic will continue for many miles. It's not like it's going to be thrown wide open for them anytime soon. You will see that there is a van right in front of them, but keep in mind that we do not know exactly who is in that vehicle. How many people do we suspect? At least three people who don't. I don't know if they are armed, but being robbery

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they are going to handle this very care

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y and we still have no idea what these guys are thinking or even if they have a comfortable location because very often we will see a suspect arrive at their destination . their home turf where they understand where the streets are and where they're going, this guy just goes straight down Highway 210, yeah, and you wonder how much they know about this suspect or suspects, if they could be part of one of those. robbery rings we've been seeing all the robberies and robberies, you know, you don't really see three suspects in the car very often in one of these Chases and we also don't know how this Chase started, maybe they were being investigated or watched by detectives or maybe this is something completely different though they are trying to get this car to stop and so far they have had no luck and it could go miles on this highway we haven't even made it to Irwindale yet and we still have uh lots and lots of highway before from trying to think what the next freeway is, yes, we'll look ahead, the six, six, five, yes, 605.

It's a 605 and the 57 too, so that's the direction they're headed but we'll see what they choose to take looking for a mile an hour now and so far I don't have it but he's moving pretty well yes 50 thanks 50 in the 50s no not excessively fast but he's passing traffic pretty fast that just shows you how slow traffic is if he's going at 50 and passes all these cars, yes the rest of the people are stuck, but that carpool lane is really working in their favor right now, not that it will be. going anywhere we can't get too, but is maneuvering to speed in the shared lane, largely passing traffic, but is in no way pulling away from the CHP traveling through Vernon now, so far it has traveled quite a distance and it started on Lakeview Terrace and it hasn't lasted that long one two two CHP vehicles behind them three three vehicles so far they can't do much with all the other cars on the roads sometimes if it's an open space maybe It's It is possible to pull something, a spike strip or something, but that only happens when there is a clear and open path.

You can't maneuver either, so it's a matter of following them and staying on their tail. that's what we're doing too, we're going to watch them continue to

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him at about 60 miles per hour in the shared lane that has remained quite open at 6:28 in the afternoon, almost at 6:30 in the afternoon, since this vehicle It just continues to roll towards the east, we believe it is a Mercedes-Benz that has some ability to maneuver and accelerate, so apparently it is a Mercedes-Benz C-Class, as you can see in gray, dark gray, hmm, trying to Learn more about what exactly it is. uh if there's any specific information clearly in calling these guys suspected of robbery and we know that this wasn't just a random traffic stop, exactly you know it wasn't a DUI or some situation like that, obviously, they know a little bit more about this situation. maybe that's why they tried to leave this car wide open, going much wider on eastbound 210 as consideration continues to move east now at 70 or 80 miles per hour yeah the further east you go you just It starts to open up more, look at that.

Now he's going over 70 or 75 miles per hour. That's largely not been my experience going east on the team. You know, it's always the Pursuits that have a very open right. We always say that they defy logic in many ways and sometimes, do they defy logic when it comes to traffic? They always seem to find a way through it. However, it does not necessarily mean that the faster they go, it does not necessarily mean that they will escape. Sometimes it's illogical, but the CHP. Vehicles can go just as fast and obviously faster than they are capable of as we approach 6:30 a.m.

Our live coverage of this breaking news will continue to stream live on abc7.com. You can also watch it live on our website and us. We're going to go to World News Tonight with David Muir on ABC 7. Okay, we're broadcasting live on ABC 7 this chase that happened, I think it started about 25 minutes ago, it started in Lakeview Terrace, now we're in East San Gabriel . Valley along 210 traveling eastbound, probably right now, we're passing through Irwindale, so we're, look, as soon as I can get a pager, I can let you know, but we know there are three robbery suspects in this Mercedes and, uh, We don't know exactly what other warrants there might be for these people, but we know that there are at least three people in this vehicle and they started being chased by the LAPD and they switched to the CHP and that's been going on for a good Oh, 20 minutes in now and this is Jory Rand joining the coverage here of this chase now heading east on the 210 and as David Ono and Ellen were talking, it's shocking how clear the 210 is right now, where is this guy opening?

Every time we have a story in San Bernardino or Riverside because, uh, it's never when I'm driving, this is not typical and uh, you see the police up there, right there at the sheriff's store or at the CHP CHP Shopper that keeps up to date with this chase right now, last time. Saw 70 or 80 miles per hour eastbound on 210. Yes, you're traveling mostly in the carpool lane, but you'll be heading to the shoulder of the road that's just been weaving in and out of traffic, but look at this, it's wide open. and it always surprises me, Jory, they say: Where do they really think they're going?

Because you have the helicopter above them watching them. We know that there are certain circumstances where helicopters cannot fly if you are near an airport. Anytime you're in LAX airspace you can get in trouble if you go up and over the mountains and one of the mountain passes, that's another possibility, but there's really nowhere to hide here on the 210 and often , when we see more urban environments. often the car stops and the passengers get out and run away, that doesn't happen here on a highway either, so no matter how many people are inside this car, we know that there are several people who are chasing the suspects here and we No.

You're probably going to see them Evacuate the car on the highway, although we're starting to see some traffic now. Yes, it is increasing. Apparently we're on Lone Hill Road. I don't know which locator would still be in East San Gabriel. Valley, obviously, on the 210 eastbound, but it's definitely slowing down a little bit. They've been able to stay on that rideshare, which has been pretty quick, yeah, and it doesn't look like the glass is overly tinted, so at some point we might be able to. to take a look inside the windows of that car, you can often see how many people are inside, you can tell what state they are in, agitation, wild movements, gesticulations, things like that, but we haven't thrown anything out of the vehicle yet .

I've often seen that with Pursuits, um wow, really slowing down, yeah, up to 35 miles per hour and you'll see, I think there's a CHP officer right behind um, when the traffic was a little bit heavier. The officers that were chasing them were pretty aggressive in trying to keep up and um and they're right there behind you still see that CHP vehicle right behind this Class C vehicle driving and it's still an HOV lane yeah double white there's an HOV lane on the 210 this is the eastbound carpool lane the East San Gabriel Valley and so on, we watch to see what happens here.

This is not a very hectic chase, but I would say that's what law enforcement would like to see, probably better, better, you don't want to see some of the dangerous maneuvers here we go, tinted windows on the side, so it's hard to see, really hard, yeah, what's inside, who's inside, is there any type of weaponry, what's their mental state, behavioral state, and so we wait now up to about 25 miles per hour and we really don't know, um , if they are armed, no, we really don't know, we still have a lot of information, at least we don't, maybe they have more information about these people, but I don't.

I don't know if he's armed or if there are actually three people with security, so excuse me, what was the last highway intersection you passed here? Oh God, do we know they should make it to 57? Okay, there's still a ways to go before you start looking at which way 15 North or South will go, so there are several major highway options, but in the left lane, that will require some maneuvering to cross these lanes of traffic. I'm wondering what the state of the gas tank situation is, how much fuel this car has, how long it can travel to where they're going, and how committed these people are to escaping if they're in this for the long haul, if I'm going to keep going. driving until the tank runs out or they try something, but there's really nowhere to go in this situation.

This is relatively, I don't want to say low speed chase because the last time we saw it was about 70 miles per hour. I don't know how much the helicopter could have been interfering with that speed, but it seems like a pretty average speed. Chase here, yes, on the 210 freeway, now going east on the 210, eventually spilling onto the 10 in Redlands and heading towards Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, so it doesn't matter if we just don't know if we have the tanka lot of space, you have the shirt barrier, you know, you find that officer exposed to some serious danger.

So I wouldn't expect to see Chris, but again, like you said, we've seen crazier things happen in some of these Chases and again this car on the shoulder. I don't know if you understood, but there was a van at the HOV. lane and tried to stop on the shoulder upon seeing the emergency vehicles, but not realizing that that car was also using the shoulder, yes, it almost looked like it was trying to get involved there, it certainly saw some erratic movements of that truck and now As you said, you can see that the jury is

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y utilizing that left shoulder for the next few miles, that will be fine, but as you go far east, there are limited opportunities along Highway 210.

You mentioned the shoulder strip. spikes, one of the opportunities that they may have been planning and may still be planning is that if you get off on an exit ramp, it is very difficult, as you said, to deploy the spike strip along the main lanes of a highway, but it's much easier when you reach an exit. ramp where there is only one lane and maybe a shoulder to play with, if it shows signs of going off, you could set up on the exit ramps further ahead and then you will have a much better chance of getting a flat or both tires, but in any case you can look, for Now that seems to be out of the window because you're completely in that shared lane avoiding anyone in your path and making full use of that left shoulder at a pretty high rate here we'll go ahead and open up the real time speed tracker.

I think we're still seeing triple digit speeds now as you get further east here to San Bernardino where the traffic flows much more freely, very little slow from here on out, you could take this all the way east and have nothing, really nothing that will hinder you at all, but of course, the more you accelerate at triple-digit speeds, the faster you will burn through the fuel in that Mercedes-Benz, yes, that car is moving right now and you almost hope that when driving on the shoulder at this kind of speed, maybe something there, a piece of debris, acting as your own drip spike strip won't have the same effect.

What makes those spike strips so awesome, as you know, Chris, are the spikes that come off and stay open so air can flow freely out of those tires and rip. pretty quick, that wouldn't happen with a nail or a bolt or something, some kind of debris on the shoulder that you would expect to cause some damage to the tire, but you never know, I don't know how often street sweepers come by. and clear those lanes, but I know that driving on our local highway there is often a lot of debris. Yes, you are right that the Jory run flat tires can go a little further, but hopefully they will still have the effect of at least impeding the handling of the vehicle, the actual steering might change a little and you might still see some benefits of a successful Spike, but in any case, that is, as I said, still off the table for now, but the number of CHP units dedicated to this chase is really catching my attention and I suppose it will continue as they continue delivering this to neighboring agencies.

Last I heard it was Baldwin Park, but I believe some of these units must now be Rancho Cucamonga units that have taken over this pursuit. And I will continue this search for a long time before we get closer to Palm Springs and now you can see we are getting much closer to this Mercedes-Benz that is heavily tinted, almost illegally, I would say from my point of view. It's impossible at this angle to see through those windows. I'm getting a lot of static in my ear, not sure where it's coming from. If that's you, it could be you.

I try four or let's wait a second here. Still it's pretty. Bad, but anyway guys, now it is, now he has the entire highway to himself if, by the way, those units are in a position where they are forced to retreat for whatever reason, which I don't anticipate, they do have that California Highway Patrol. Helicopter right above everything doing the shooting, so the helicopter overhead calls for speed and location and units on the ground can focus on continuing the chase at a safe distance without having to worry about a lot of additional communications or radio. traffic, they are right behind them, they have a lot of dedicated officers here and now it becomes a much safer situation, always safer on the freeway, but when you have an open freeway like this without many other motorists around, then I have the opportunity to be a little more creative and it looks like you're having fun getting off, this is the 215 right on 15th Street on the 215 Freeway, that's the 215 and you'll have the option here.

I think you still have the option to go, yes. Southbound now it's committed committed to the southbound side something flew out of that vehicle or it may have hit something. I saw some sparks there, but it's now committed to the south side of Highway 210 where, by the way, there is traffic. it's still relatively light here, but at least it's going to stay in the San Bernardino metropolitan area, it won't continue into the desert in this direction, it'll go south on Highway 215 and maybe we'll start to find out if it has connections here, whether be familiar with this area or if you just continue with this Joyride along the highway, but as long as you're on the highway, that's where the authorities would like to keep you guys, I'll turn it over to you guys. just a second until I find out where daddy is oh he could be yeah you got it Chris okay now 215 South this gives this driver the opportunity to return to the greater Los Angeles area at various outlets , but every time I see a car heading east like this car, you wonder if they're going to try to go up one of the mountain passes where the helicopters might have trouble getting over it and then you talk about fuel and you talk about elevation, but now it is like that. could have come out of the 215.

This wouldn't be the 10. We're still too far north, I think for the 10. This could be the 66. He's there, he's there in the 250 guys and now. coming to yes, now coming off the freeway, you're on the exit ramp, yes, you're on surface streets, turning left now on Baseline, going west on Baseline Avenue and now maybe getting ready to go the wrong way on Highway 215, doing a 180 and now coming back. Heading north on Highway 215 and that was when I was starting to get there if we see these types of turns it tells you wait a minute I'm not that comfortable I don't know how to get here or my final destination is not in the direction I was going, for some reason we're speculating, but for some reason he decided to go ahead and reverse course, get off the freeway and now go the opposite direction north on highway 215.

Now I would hope he would stay. Highway 215 all the way to Cajon Pass because if you take the 210, which you could do, then you know you're going to have more traffic and something tells me this guy doesn't want to keep fighting that traffic he's been fighting for most of last hour, that's just a guess, but obviously you may have a destination in mind and that could be a key priority, in any case, you're now heading north on Highway 215 towards Cajon Pass, we'll see. a wild look at them cutting off that truck a wild swerve in front of that 18 wheeler a great move if you're trying to lose those officers but there's plenty behind them to make up for that last minute move another wild left turn across from that uh, fortunately, green light and now this chase again on the surface streets is taking on a more dangerous profile here and now we can expect a possible maneuver in the pits here, if they see an opportunity, one has to believe that that maneuver has already been authorized, as one might think. and it almost seemed like the officer chasing him thought about it, thought about it, and realized that there were too many cars around, but once you see a vehicle like this being chased, make wild moves like that, you can feel that desperation and the danger increases. pretty quickly and quite noticeably and it seemed like that officer knew what was going on, realized what was going on here and thought about it, but then he just didn't have the situational clearance to be able to pull it off and now we're at it.

Highland Avenue back to the side streets, you know, we said from the beginning it was an uneventful chase and that's what you want to see from a law enforcement perspective. Going through a red light, it just turned green, but you see people there, I don't know if. that was a baby stroller or a shopping cart, but you see people at intersections and you have a car going so fast Chris, you start talking about some really dangerous possibilities, innocent drivers, pedestrians left and right, which was a Uneventful chase can very quickly get very hectic here. it goes into the well right along the right fender and spends that runaway Mercedes doing a complete 180 and disabling that vehicle for now we'll see if there's anything left in the tank there it's come to a complete stop and is now facing south . face to face with these three CHP units facing each other now with his hands and arms in the air the driver gets out of the vehicle it's over for him he understands that this vehicle wasn't going anywhere and his time is up the driver calmly gives up here , assuming the position right in front of those officers, appears to be obeying orders, but remember there are two other suspects that we are aware of inside that vehicle, so a textbook maneuver to take this guy down and end this chase exactly like the way they train at the Academy, a perfect 180 face to face with those officers, immediately everyone jumped and the suspect thankfully surrendered, as now they try to stop the driver, stop the driver of that Mercedes-Benz again, no We know if that.

Mercedes belongs to this type or maybe if it really was a stolen vehicle, we only know that the original was a theft. These are robbery suspects like CHP and it appears that the San Bernardino Sheriff is now involved in this chase as they appear to be taking over. this arrest here looks like there are several different agencies including the one that says ATF. I'm not sure what says better, it says police, it's just police. I thought I saw it, yes, it could be several different agencies, including La Verne, which is not far away, you also have Fontana and San Bernardino, in any case, you can see them still very cautiously, pointing their weapons at that vehicle, at momentarily approaching, they can definitely already distinguish those other suspects. but again through those very tinted windows it could be difficult, but I would expect them to start momentarily approaching that vehicle using the public address system to give orders to the passengers to exit the vehicle one by one, which we are not seeing on the By the way, I don't see anyone else.

No, yes, no. Obviously, it's tinted windows and we were told there were several suspects, but given how quickly the driver, Chris, got out, I'm surprised there is anyone else. in the car that they haven't given up so quickly it's weird you see I mean this was a driver for someone else here comes someone else here comes the passenger coming out of the back seat and about to give himself up hopefully here we will I see he can be hurt, I'm not sure he's collapsing and now there's another person visible in the passenger seat, so that would make three if there was a fourth that we don't know about, but that back seat passenger is crawling on the driver's side on the pavement with his hands up appears to be cooperating as well, this would be suspect number two coming out of the back seat, the driver detained and then one more person in the passenger seat who will be ordered out of the vehicle, but, uh he doesn't show up and you're wondering why he didn't get out of the backseat the old fashioned way opening those doors but for some reason he got out and maybe the child safety lock was on who knows but in any case now they're getting ready to order him to the room third suspect instead of the third suspect who was sitting in that passenger seat to exit the vehicle and, uh, we would hope that if she intends to give up, she comes out like Well, in just a few seconds, but right now you can't see Lots of movement coming from the passenger seat, which is a bit surprising.

Yeah, now you see the officer backing away and I don't know if that's anyone's case. They're not complying or they're just regrouping to assess what's going to happen here, but this person doesn't seem to move inside, they don't make any moves, they don't comply and you can see that canine ready, yeah, here now. Come on, uh, that will be the first time we see any movement. Now she's thinking better of it and now she comes out with her hands up and good for her because that canine unit was ready to jump into the driver's seat. that vehicle if it didn't and you can see, fortunately, it appears that this chase is coming to a peaceful resolution, but theThe suspects obviously took their time getting out of the vehicle, but fortunately all is well, that ends well, fortunately no one was injured over the course of this high-speed chase from the San Fernando Valley LAPD San ​​Bernardino CHP several agencies are taking this chase to a peaceful resolution yeah you have to imagine it was made known that they had a canine unit there that they were about to send in in case they had to, if no move was made because it seemed like this woman didn't want to come out and then very quickly the decision was made to do it, but as I was saying before, Chris, it's rare that you see a driver and they just know they're up.

The Jig is over, it's over and he just went out and gave up, you know, it usually takes a little more time or some kind of fight in him, he had nothing left and that's how you know you'd rather not see a persecution. but when the end comes, that's exactly what you want to see, it's over, yes, exactly out of gas, literally and figuratively, immediately throwing your hands in the air because if you don't show your hands, the risk to your life becomes dramatically questionable , so the first thing he did was exactly the right thing, which was to show his hands and arms, raise them in the air, that's exactly what he was ordered to do.

Fortunately, the vehicle was immobilized once the inertia switch was activated, that pit maneuver was completed. the effect of disabling the vehicle completely and would require a complete reset to turn the vehicle back on, fortunately that was not attempted and was delivered immediately and you can see a uniformed and unmarked, you know, officers nearby, at the end of This multi-agency chase will likely bring these suspects back to Los Angeles County, yes, and once again, kudos to that officer who postponed the pit stop. We've seen many fail in the past, that was textbook, like you said Chris, perfect, you can see.

Exactly where that car is is aligned with the street lines, I mean it was such a perfect maneuver that brought this to such a quick end and you can see it lined up there looking in the opposite direction, congratulations to the officer who is right, one more for the CHP highlight reel and, uh, three dangerous ones. people off the road, fortunately, what could have been so dangerous? At the speeds they were traveling and weaving through traffic again when on the freeway, you breathe a little sigh of relief, but once off the freeway it continued those erratics. movements and those wild left turns.

I start breathing deeply because you never know what kind of miscalculation that driver might make and how dangerous these chases become and luckily they didn't waste any time right off the highway and on short notice. Within a couple of minutes they saw their opportunity, he took it and a very well deserved steak dinner for him tonight because we actually have a videotape of that pivot now that we can play a perfect hole, uh, to end his day, yes, that driver. gets the win or the save however you want to classify this in baseball, but uh, and we even have a rewind replay like they do in sports, okay, so everything is clear here, I can't see that great work and then the officer just gets We'll get out of there because they would be in the line of fire, but Chris Christie, thank you for rushing into this scene and adding to this coverage, it's invaluable and we thank you for this and we'll see you next time I'm sure.

You got it guys, that's right, thank you, thank you, you got it, guys, no problem.