A suspected car thief and his accomplice led CHP officers on a car chase from Ventura County that ended when they abandoned the car at Malibu’s Broad Beach, and were taken into custody Saturday.
California Highway Patrol officers arrested one of the suspects in a perimeter set up near Broad Beach, and deputies from the sheriff’s Malibu-Lost Hills station arrested the second suspect about 9:20 a.m., according to a watch sergeant at the sheriff’s station.
The car chase started with the sighting of a reportedly stolen car by the CHP in the Oxnard area, and the men bailed out in the 31000 block of Broad Beach Road, just west of Trancas Creek, deputies said.
The Los Angeles CHP were called in about 7:03 a.m. to assist in the investigation, according to CHP Officer Peter Nicholson.
A perimeter was set up at 7:25 a.m. on Pacific Coast Highway west of Trancas, according to a watch commander at the sheriff’s station.
The Ventura County sheriff’s helicopter arrived at about 8 a.m., residents said, flying up and down the coast at very low altitude, searching for the suspects on the rocky shore, as California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies ringed the area.
This was the second armed police response on Broad Beach in two weeks, as a domestic abuse suspect was arrested during an armed perimeter last week.
—City News Service