Steals Police Cruiser Leads Cops on Chase
An armed man threatening to kill people at In-N-Out Burgers confronted responding police, appropriated a police car and led officers on a 12-minute chase through the city before the cruiser he stole was rammed and he was taken into custody, Pasadena police said.
At about 9:47 p.m., Pasadena Police responded to In-N-Out Burgers located in the 2100 block of East Foothill Blvd. regarding a report of a man, 40 to 50 years old, who was reportedly blocking the driveway and threatening to shoot people.
Officers located the suspect several blocks away at a business in the 2200 block of East Foothill Blvd.
Police said that when officers approached, the suspect struck a police car with a metal cylindrical object. Officers confronted the armed suspect and ordered the suspect to drop his weapons and he refused. After refusing to surrender, the suspect jumped in an open police car and drove off at high rate of speed.
Officers pursued the suspect on surface streets traversing through Pasadena for a distance of approximately eight miles and for duration of approximately 12 minutes.
The only police units involved in the pursuit were Pasadena Police.
The suspect apparently then escaped from the police car through the driver window and climbed on top of the police car.
Officers deployed a Taser. The suspect jumped off of the roof of the police car and was taken into custody.
The suspect was transported to a local hospital for treatment. No one else was injured in the bizarre incident.
