Glendale : Not Guilty Plea in Car Theft
A Glendale man who was arrested after he allegedly led police on a wrong-way freeway chase that ended in a collision has pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnaping, robbery, auto theft and evading arrest, authorities said.
At his arraignment Monday in Los Angeles Municipal Court, Manuel Canas, 23, was ordered to appear at a Jan. 27 preliminary hearing. He was jailed in lieu of $145,000 bail.
Los Angeles Police believe Canas is the man who stole a 25-year-old Glendale woman’s 1979 Porsche at gunpoint on Jan. 9 as she was leaving a relative’s house in the 1900 block of West Avenue 30 in Glassell Park.
Police spotted the Porsche and chased Canas as he drove the wrong way on the southbound Glendale Freeway where the car collided with a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Canas and the two people in the Chevrolet were slightly injured.
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