Police Pursuit Ends With Woman Surrendering (KTLA) |
LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- 19 year-old Genesis Ochoa of Long Beach and her friend, 23 year-old Miranda Eblin sent police on a high speed chase in a reported stolen car through the streets of Los Angeles last week.
The two women put the public at risk while dodging tanker trucks and pedestrians and side-swiping other cars before stopping and surrendering on Del Amo Blvd.
The day before Ochoa and Eblin's incident, 50 year-old Debbie Hounanian, a working mom, sped down surface streets off the 405 Freeway, and in recent weeks, 31-year-old Emma J. Briggs of Lawndale, a woman suspected of shoplifting in Mission Viejo, led Orange County Sheriffs all the way up to Sherman Oaks, where officers found what 'looked' like the stolen loot in her trunk.
Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says, "You wonder what's going on in their minds, going through city streets endangering lives."
CHP Officer John Patterson says "Just based on simple statistics we have more female drivers on the road than ever before." And Patterson adds, "Law enforcement can only speculate as to what's causing the uptick in fleeing female felons. Sometimes it's problems in the home, sometimes it's being under the influence of a controlled substance, alcohol."
Patterson says make no mistake, arresting officers don't care what gender they make surrender. "Female or male, just as capable of harming us, killing us -- we have to take risk out of it, treat them the same, male or female. Bottom line is, if you run from us, put other lives in danger, we're going to treat you the same way."
The two women put the public at risk while dodging tanker trucks and pedestrians and side-swiping other cars before stopping and surrendering on Del Amo Blvd.
The day before Ochoa and Eblin's incident, 50 year-old Debbie Hounanian, a working mom, sped down surface streets off the 405 Freeway, and in recent weeks, 31-year-old Emma J. Briggs of Lawndale, a woman suspected of shoplifting in Mission Viejo, led Orange County Sheriffs all the way up to Sherman Oaks, where officers found what 'looked' like the stolen loot in her trunk.
Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says, "You wonder what's going on in their minds, going through city streets endangering lives."
CHP Officer John Patterson says "Just based on simple statistics we have more female drivers on the road than ever before." And Patterson adds, "Law enforcement can only speculate as to what's causing the uptick in fleeing female felons. Sometimes it's problems in the home, sometimes it's being under the influence of a controlled substance, alcohol."
Patterson says make no mistake, arresting officers don't care what gender they make surrender. "Female or male, just as capable of harming us, killing us -- we have to take risk out of it, treat them the same, male or female. Bottom line is, if you run from us, put other lives in danger, we're going to treat you the same way."
