Woman Arrested After High-Speed Chase
A 21-year-old woman, who apparently did not want her car impounded, led authorities on a high-speed chase Saturday night that began on the Ventura Freeway in Thousand Oaks and ended at the woman’s house in midtown Ventura, officials said.
California Highway Patrol officers stopped a Honda Civic on Hampshire Road about 7:10 p.m. because the occupants were not wearing seat belts, said CHP Sgt. Ted Brummett. The unidentified male driver was not licensed to drive, Brummett said, and officers decided to impound the car.
While waiting for the tow truck to arrive, the female passenger got behind the wheel and drove off, hitting speeds of up to 85 mph as she made her way to Ventura, Brummett said.
“She didn’t want us to take her car away from her,” Brummett said.
Three CHP units and a Ventura County Sheriff’s Department helicopter pursued the car to Ventura, where it exited the freeway at Seaward Avenue, heading north. Ventura police officers joined in the pursuit, which wound through city streets and alleys.
The car pulled into a driveway in the 200 block of South Santa Rosa Street, and CHP officers arrested Jasmine Meadow Tanner on suspicion of evading arrest, Brummett said.
No one was injured in the pursuit and no vehicles were damaged, officers said.
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