Dog Sniffs Out Suspect After High-Speed Chase : Pursuit: CHP says officers fired at the fugitive who had a flat tire in Northridge and then fled on foot down an alley.

An alleged car thief led police and sheriff’s deputies on a gunfire-punctuated chase that began at a gas station in Palmdale and ended with the man breaking into a Northridge house where he was sniffed out of the attic by a police dog.

Lloyd A. Holbrook, a 31-year-old transient, aimed a pistol at pursuing officers after the stolen car he was driving Friday night was halted by a flat tire, said California Highway Patrol Sgt. Rob Lund.

The 46-mile high-speed chase from the Antelope Valley ended at the intersection of Parthenia Street and Lindley Avenue, Lund said. Pursuing CHP officers and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies fired several shots at Holbrook, but the uninjured suspect fled down a nearby alley and disappeared.

A police dog found Holbrook hiding in the attic of a house officers said he had broken into. He surrendered about 10:45 p.m.

The chase began at 9:05 p.m., when a community safety officer in Palmdale notified sheriff’s deputies that she was following a stolen 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier station wagon.

A deputy attempted to pull the driver over at the corner of Sierra Highway and Palmdale Boulevard, but he drove through a gas station parking lot and led the deputy onto the Antelope Valley Freeway, weaving through traffic on the rain-slick road at 90 m.p.h., according to authorities.

The deputy lost sight of the car in Acton, but Highway Patrol officers soon caught up with it and followed the blue station wagon south on the Golden State and San Diego Freeways until it exited at Nordhoff Street.

Holbrook, who was already wanted on suspicion of brandishing a firearm in another incident, was booked at the Van Nuys jail on suspicion of attempted murder of a police officer, police said.