Fleeing Suspect Leads Police to Big Haul : Crime: Chase ends at Huntington Beach home where officers find guns, drugs, stolen goods and a homemade bomb. Two skinheads are charged, but man who ran isn’t.

A man being chased by police inadvertently led officers to the home of two skinheads who were caught with drugs, several weapons, a homemade explosive device and $10,000 worth of stolen property, police said Sunday.

Officers responding to a report of a man in a car with a gun, went to the 1000 block of California Street about 4:20 p.m. Saturday afternoon. There they saw a car with a man in it and pursued the car into an alley. The man, whose name was not released, then jumped from the car and ran, said Lt. Patrick Gilday.

“He ran into a residence on California Street and officers followed him inside,” Gilday said, adding the man did not live in the house but appeared to know its residents.

As officers questioned the man, they saw marijuana, scales and other equipment used to package and sell drugs.

Police stopped their immediately investigation and obtained a search warrant, they said. Using the warrant, which took an unspecified time to obtain, they then discovered five ounces of marijuana, two grams of methamphetamine, a rifle, a shotgun, several handguns, a semiautomatic weapon and ammunition, Gilday said.

One of the handguns and the semiautomatic weapon had been reported stolen, police said.

Police also found numerous auto stereos, amplifiers, speakers, tools and portable cellular telephones that are also believed to have been stolen. Also found was an unspecified homemade explosive device, police said.

Arrested for suspicion of drug possession, suspicion of receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony were 25-year-old John Francisco Montiel and a 16-year-old male whose name was not released. They lived at the house, police said.

Gilday said items in the home link the two suspects to a white supremacist skinhead gang.

Montiel, who is being held at Huntington Beach Jail on $25,000 bail, was also charged with suspicion of possessing an explosive device. The minor is being held at Orange County Juvenile Hall.

Neighbors said Sunday that Montiel and the teen-ager had been living on the property for about six months.

One neighbor said a lot of young men with “skinheads and tattoos all over their bodies” come and went from the residence “at all hours.”

“There were a lot of late-night parties and people there all the time,” said the neighbor. “They would smoke outside on the patio because the landlord does not allow smoking inside the house.”

Neighbors said that despite the constant traffic, they did not suspect that anything illegal was going on.

“It’s weird because I live right next door,” he said. “This is an absolutely beautiful neighborhood and I’ve been here for 10 years. So this whole thing is kinda scary.”

Ironically, the man who initially fled from police and ran into the house to hide was not carrying a weapon as had been reported and was not arrested.

“He just led the troops to the bad guys,” Gilday said.