Overlook a getaway automobile.
A person needed for carjacking tried to flee police on a skateboard in Los Angeles final month.
In footage launched by police on Friday, Pedro Villalobos might be seen abruptly leaping out of a stolen van with a skateboard after dropping management of the car in a police chase.
Half a dozen cops, who had chased Villalobos within the erratic and harmful 6 am chase, had their weapons raised as he deserted the truck pulling an hooked up trailer.
“Cease cease! Let me see your arms!” policemen might be heard warning.
As a substitute, Villalobos, wearing a reflective yellow vest that was exhausting to overlook, walked down the darkish avenue and calmly hopped onto the skateboard, the video reveals.
“A number of officers pursued Villalobos on foot as further items drove previous Villalobos’ place,” Los Angeles police mentioned in an announcement.
Nonetheless, the accused thief didn’t get very far.
An officer who crossed Villalobos’s path jumped out of his patrol automobile and pushed him off his board as he tried to dodge the officer.
Villalobos fell to the bottom and was rapidly coated by 4 officers.
The suspect was taken to a hospital for therapy for a proper leg harm sustained within the fall, resulting in a police investigation into the incident; the division should examine all regulation enforcement associated accidents.
He was later booked on two counts of car theft and one rely of reckless evasion.
