A woman driving a Mercedes-Benz filled with six dogs was taken into custody on the Long Beach (710) Freeway in Long Beach after a chase and several pit maneuvers employed by the California Highway Patrol.
It’s unclear exactly when the pursuit began on the Artesia (91) Freeway in Buena Park near Knott Avenue but the CHP in Los Angeles was notified about the ongoing incident around 8:35 p.m., Monday, according to CHP Officer Francisco Villalobos.
According to law enforcement and media reports, the woman, whose name was not released, had pulled her car over to the side of the freeway in Orange County when a CHP officer pulled up behind her to see if she needed assistance.
The woman then drove away and the chase was on.
The chase finally ended about 10 p.m. on the southbound Long Beach (710) Freeway, just south of Del Amo Boulevard, after the CHP used several pit maneuvers to spin the car out and into the center divider, Villalobos said.
When the woman finally got out of the vehicle in response to commands from the CHP, her six dogs, large and small, began leaving the car.
They ran up to her as she laid down on the freeway, ran around the CHP cars and wagged their tails as the officers tried to corral them.
Traffic had been stopped in the vicinity of the end of the chase because of the law enforcement activity before the dogs ran around the freeway.
The woman was eventually put into a CHP cruiser and the dogs rounded up by the officers.
—City News Service