Covina Police Wednesday arrested two burglary suspects who led them on a chase to a flood control channel.
About 1 a.m., an officer saw the suspects at the front door of a closed doughnut shop, said Covina Police Sgt. Gregg Peterson. The suspects saw police and started walking away.
“As the officer neared the suspects to contact them, both suspects started running away from the officer and as they did, paper currency started falling out of a backpack one of the suspects was carrying,” Peterson said. “The two suspects began jumping fences and eventually jumped into the Los Angeles County Flood Control Channel.”
Police set up a perimeter, and determined that the pair were trying to escape out of the flood control channel by climbing through a series of sewer channels, Peterson said.
As officers were preparing to search the sewer channels with the assistance of a police dog, one of them spotted the suspects trying to hide near the mouth of the storm drain that runs under the 800 block of W. Covina Boulevard, Peterson said.
Police arrested the pair, and handcuffed them to the metal grating of the storm drain until they could be safely brought out of the area with assistance from county firefighters, the sergeant said.
The two males — and adult and a juvenile — were booked on suspicion of burglary.
—City News Service