After an entire night of chase with the police, a tractor-trailer thief blocked one of the busiest freeways in the Los Angeles area for several hours Thursday morning, before surrendering around 8 a.m. hours, French time).
In total, the thief’s attempt to escape lasted more than 12 hours and caused massive traffic jams in the middle of rush hour, but did not cause any injuries. According to images broadcast on local television, the thief was driving slowly, had made sure to fasten his seat belt and used his flashing light. The chase began shortly after 8 p.m. in eastern Los Angeles on Wednesday night, when the suspect stole a heavy truck from a parking lot.
Warned by the driver, the police quickly located the stolen truck on the highway thanks to a helicopter and patrol vehicles had chased it. They managed to detonate several tires of the truck using harrows deployed across the tracks, but the thief was not stopped because the semi-trailer had 14 tires.
The vehicle finally stopped in the middle of the highway
Faced with a vehicle that could not be forcibly stopped, the police followed him, waiting for him to surrender or to run out of fuel. After driving through several counties east, north, west of Los Angeles, he ended up pulling the vehicle to a stop on Thursday around 4 a.m. in the middle of a freeway in Santa Ana, County. Orange, south of the City of Angels, forcing the authorities to close this section.
The thief did not immediately surrender to the surrounding police, remaining holed up in the cab of the truck for more than four hours. He finally surrendered around 8:30 a.m.
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