The Region - News from Aug. 11, 1985

Two men led police on a high-speed chase early Saturday that ended in Hollywood when the sports car they were driving slammed into a building and ignited a $600,000 fire, police said. Officers pulled Curtis Johnson, 18, and his cousin, Carlos Johnson, 19, both of Los Angeles, from the burning Corvette shortly before its gasoline tank exploded, police said. The Johnsons were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and auto theft. They are suspected of stabbing Martin Sheldon, 27, of North Hollywood, in the back as he made a telephone call at a gas station and of stealing his 1980 Corvette. Officers in a passing patrol car were pursuing the car when it failed to make a sharp turn and crashed into a building at 4439 Fountain Ave.