2 in Stolen Car Arrested After 10-Mile Artesia Freeway Chase
Two Long Beach teen-agers led police on a high-speed chase from La Palma to Long Beach early Sunday after allegedly stealing a car at gunpoint, authorities said.
Police arrested suspects Joseph Aaron Lowrey, 18, and an unidentified 17-year-old--after the 10-mile chase ended when police said the youths tried to flee on foot from a 1987 Toyota that was reported stolen shortly before midnight Saturday.
Lowrey was being held on $50,000 bail Sunday in Anaheim City Jail on suspicion of armed robbery. The 17-year-old suspect was being held in Orange County Juvenile Hall in Orange on suspicion of armed robbery, police said. No bail was set.
Police said the report of the stolen car was made about 11:49 p.m. Saturday by two 17-year-olds from Buena Park and Anaheim who hailed an Anaheim police officer at 3200 E. Kraemer Blvd.
Anaheim police broadcast a countywide description of the car and the robbery suspects. At about midnight, a La Palma police officer spotted the suspects driving the Toyota westbound on the Artesia Freeway.
La Palma police tried to stop the car, but the suspects sped off, and the chase into Long Beach began. The suspects exited the freeway at Cherry Avenue and drove south to 64th Street, where they jumped out of the car and tried to hide, police said.
Police from La Palma and Anaheim as well as Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies searched the area and arrested the suspects, police said.
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