Orange : 2 Suspects Held After Holdup, Freeway Chase
Two men were arrested early Thursday after they allegedly tried to rob a man outside a restaurant in Orange and then led police on a freeway chase into Los Angeles County, officers said.
Israel Luque Lopez, 20, of Bell and Alejandro Lopez Duarte, 28, who was identified as a transient, were being held on suspicion of attempted armed robbery and auto theft, according to Bob Gustafson of the Orange Police Department.
Gustafson said a man told officers that two men who tried to rob him about 2:45 a.m. in the parking lot of a Denny’s restaurant at 3000 W. Chapman Ave. had fled in a red pickup truck.
The truck was spotted by officers on the Santa Ana Freeway and was pursued until it pulled off at Carmenita Avenue in Norwalk and its two occupants fled on foot.
After a search of the residential area by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department units, Lopez and Duarte were taken into custody.
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