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A CHP stolen vehicle pursuit ended in Santa Ana

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You may have noticed a commotion in Santa Ana on Saturday afternoon. A suspect led the CHP on a pursuit that started on the 5 Freeway then continued in the City of Santa Ana.

The suspect was behind the wheel of an allegedly stolen pickup truck, according to KTLA.

The suspect was traveling at high speeds and passing vehicles in a reckless manner, according to NBC.

The police pursuit ended at Warner Avenue near Pullman Street around 6:20 p.m. when the suspect finally pulled over.

There was a brief police standoff before the driver and two passengers finally gave up and were arrested by the police.

Santa Ana man accepts charges after killing two in a DUI crash in 2017

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Vincent de la Vega, 31, a Santa Ana man, was charged with murder in connection with a crash that killed two people on the southbound Orange (57) Freeway in Diamond Bar, according to the O.C. Register.

De la Vega pleaded no contest Monday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He is due back in court on Tuesday, when victims’ impact statements are scheduled to be delivered, according to the Daily Pilot.

De la Vega’s crash victims included Eduardo Goncalves-Lins, 28, of Costa Mesa, and his passenger, Paula Queiroz-Lopes, 24, of Diamond Bar. They were killed in the crash, on Oct. 28, 2017, shortly before 3 a.m.

Goncalves-Lins was involved in a previous accident that morning as he was driving a 2014 Toyota Corolla south on the 57. He veered to the right and crashed into the back of a tow truck that was parked on the right shoulder just south of Diamond Bar Boulevard, according to the CHP. About a minute later, de la Vega’s Toyota Tacoma struck the Corolla, and both Goncalves-Lins and Queiroz-Lopes were thrown onto the freeway, according to the CHP.

A DUI driver was arrested while sleeping on the 57 Freeway

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Santa Ana CHP dispatch received several calls from the public regarding a driver consuming alcohol and unable to maintain his lane while traveling on SR-57, on Tuesday, according to the Santa Ana CHP’s Facebook page.

Officer Carson responded to the area and located the driver stopped in the middle of the freeway asleep behind the wheel. The driver was arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol.

His blood alcohol content was 4 times the legal limit.

How drunk is .325%? At this point, you may be unconscious and your potential for death increases. Along with a loss of understanding, at this BAC you’ll also experience severe increases in your heart rate, irregular breathing and may have a loss of bladder control, according to Alcohol.org.

How much do you have to drink to get to a .325 blood alcohol level? A 160-pound man would have a BAC of 0.30 by consuming 11 drinks in an hour! So the guy who fell asleep on the 57 Freeway may have downed a 12 pack by himself!

A Santa Ana man was among four killed in a head-on motorcycle collision on Sunday

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Picture from David Terman’s Facebook page

A Santa Ana resident, David Mark Terman, 59, died in a head-on motorcycle collision on Sunday, according to the O.C. Register.

Terman was on a motorcycle with Edith Mae Hegy, 62, of Elko, Nevada. They both died in the crash.

The Register reported that a Harley-Davidson, with a rider and a passenger, were traveling north about a quarter-mile south of Hicks Haul Road, northwest of Silverado Canyon and south of Irvine Lake and tried to pass a vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol said: It went into opposing traffic and slammed into a second motorcycle, a Honda, with two people aboard.

Terman is pictured on an older Facebook page on a Honda motorcycle.

The others that were killed in the crash were Regina Michelle Crowder, 48, of Fountain Valley and Jon Michael Schwarz, 50, of Tustin. Each motorcycle involved in the collision was carrying a man and a woman.

Terman’s current Facebook page noted that he was “getting into carpentry work instead of plumbing.” He was a Missionary at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was originally from Indianapolis, Indiana.

A suspected DUI driver smashed into another car while driving the wrong way on the 5 Fwy. early this morning

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A wrong-way driver suspected of DUI plowed head-on into another car on the 5 Freeway early Saturday morning, injuring four people, according to the O.C. Register.

The incident happened at around 1:32 a.m. when a car traveling southbound in the northbound carpool lane on the 5 Freeway, near First St., plowed into a vehicle heading north, according to the CHP.

Four people were seriously injured in the vehicle that was going north. They were hospitalized with major injuries.

The driver of the wrong-way vehicle was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Traffic was so bad because of the accident that the CHP had a hard time getting to the scene of the accident. Traffic had to be stopped to allow the responding ambulances and fire trucks to reach the scene of the accident. In fact they had to drive the wrong way on the freeway to get to the victims.

The identities of the suspected DUI driver and the injured people were not released.

A body was run over by several cars on the 5 Freeway in Santa Ana early this morning

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A person was found dead after being run over several times early Monday morning on the 5 Freeway in Santa Ana, according to the L.A. Times.

The CHP started getting calls at about 1.am. after at least one driver reported that they had run over something that might have been a body, on the northbound 5 Freeway at the 22 Freeway, adjacent to William Elridge Park, just north of the MainPlace Mall, the Discovery Cube and the Santiago Creek – where dozens of homeless people camp out illegally.

The CHP later confirmed that the body was in the No. 2 lane and it was struck by several vehicles.

There were also unconfirmed reports that the victim had jumped from the 22 Freeway onto the 5.

The Orange Police Department said it had been in contact with the person, who had been walking the streets of Orange not far from where the body was found.

The incident resulted in the closure several lanes of the 5 Freeway that were finally reopened at about 3:30 a.m.

Anaheim man arrested for the murder of a woman at a Santa Ana hotel

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Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: Suspect Detained By CHP – Visalia Is Arrested By SAPD Detectives For October 16th, 2018 Murder

Arrested: Milton Louis Mayfield (55) Anaheim booked into SAPD Jail for the Charge of CPC 187 Murder

Victim: Deborah Ann Simon (55) Santa Ana

On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, at 4:50 AM, Santa Ana Police Department received information from the California Highway Patrol, Visalia Station, that they had made contact with a male in a disabled vehicle on the side of the freeway in Tulare County. During their investigation the male, identified as Milton Louis Mayfield made spontaneous statements indicating he may have killed a woman in a motel room in the area of First Street and Grand Ave in the City of Santa Ana. Continue reading→

A man who was walking on the 55 Fwy. this morning was struck by a car and killed

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A pedestrian was struck and killed while walking on the 55 Freeway early Tuesday morning, while several motorists were injured in a pair of crashes, according to the O.C. Register.

The man was seen walking between the carpool and fast lanes of the northbound 55 Freeway at about 5:40 a.m. CHP officers responded but before they could arrive the man was struck by a Honda Accord. Continue reading→

Armed robbery suspects led the Garden Grove police on a pursuit that ended in L.A.

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Two armed-robbery suspects, Mondher Arredondo, 33, and Angellia Lopez, 24, were arrested Monday morning, June 11, after leading police on a chase from Garden Grove to Los Angeles County, according to the O.C. Register.

The Garden Grove police were contacted at about 12:30 a.m. about an armed robbery near Harbor Blvd. and Quatro Ave. When the officers arrived at the scene they ended up pursuing the suspects as they fled in their vehicle onto the Westbound 22 Freeway then onto the I-405. Continue reading→

A suspect was arrested in Bellflower after a wild police pursuit that started in Santa Ana

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The SAPD tried to stop the driver of a possibly stolen Audi sedan with paper dealer plates this morning at about 10 a.m. The driver took off and led the police on a wild pursuit that finally ended in Bellflower at about 11:25 a.m.

The suspect led the pursuing SAPD police officers onto the northbound 405 Freeway and then onto the northbound 605 Freeway, according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading→

The CHP is looking for a hit and run driver who caused a fatal car accident at the 55 Freeway on Saturday

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A hit and run driver who caused a fatal car accident on the 55 Freeway last Saturday afternoon, at about 2:25 p.m., is now being sought by the CHP, according to the O.C. Register.

The suspect was behind the wheel of a white sedan, headed south on the 55 Freeway, when he cut off a 2015 Mazda 6, causing that driver to swerve and crash into the side of a 2010 Toyota Sienna. The Toyota then careened into a 2017 Honda Pilot which went on to slam into a center divider. That Toyota also hit the center divider and proceeded to roll over several times. Continue reading→