Officers chased a carjacking suspect in a pickup truck from Fontana, in San Bernardino County, into downtown Los Angeles Friday.
The chase on Friday began at the China Cook restaurant when the suspect attempted to steal a man’s pickup, according to NBC4. The man told the TV station that the two wrestled in the cab of the pickup until the carjacker accelerated the vehicle, throwing the owner of the pickup to the ground.
Fontana police, and later California Highway Patrol officers, chased the suspect west on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway, then the Hollywood (101) Freeway and then though streets of downtown L.A., Boyle Heights and East L.A.
The chase continued more than an hour after it began, with the suspect driving erratically and stopping at times and waving his arms out the vehicle’s window before driving off again.
As of 1:45 p.m., the suspect was driving erratically on the wrong side of the road along Olympic Boulevard in downtown L.A.