Arrest Fashion Island Laguna Beach Chase
— Photo past Daniel Langhorne ©
A 40-year-sometime homeless man, with ties to Newport Beach and suspected of evading police officers after an attempted DUI traffic stop in Laguna Beach, was arrested Wednesday following a cursory search of a Corona del Mar neighborhood.
Laguna Beach police officers responded to a report a motorist possibly driving under the influence at half-dozen:39 p.yard. The gray SUV'south driver, Kevin Laurence Favreau, yielded near Glenneyre and Cleo street but drove off when an officeholder approached the vehicle on foot, said Sgt. Jim Cota, a spokesman for the Laguna Beach Police Department.
Officers pursued Favreau on Laguna Canyon Road and onto the northbound 73 toll road. An Orange County Sheriff'due south Section helicopter arrived on scene and began broadcasting the pursuit to law enforcement.
— Photograph courtesy Laguna Embankment Police Section
The suspect exited the toll route and was driving through Irvine when he collided with another motorist, who was not injured in the crash. Favreau then drove into Newport Embankment.
At one bespeak, officers lost sight of the doubtable's vehicle but he was located after Newport Beach police reported a 2nd standoff. With the aid of OCSD and Huntington Beach police helicopters, officers located the suspect'due south machine.
Officers managed to deploy spike strips to pop the vehicle's tires earlier it the chase headed into CdM around 7 p.1000., NBPD Sgt. Mike James said.
Kristi Smitt was celebrating her birthday eating dinner exterior at the Bungalow when she saw a grey SUV speed by at more than 45 mph, driving on its rims with sparks flying.
"We could not even talk because it was so loud from the [rims] screeching," she said.
— Photo past Max Johnson ©
The vehicle was found unoccupied and officers started searching a residential neighborhood west of Larkspur and 3rd avenues. Officers searching the surface area on pes were shining flashlights in the front yards of residences in the neighborhood with weapons drawn.
Newport Embankment constabulary officers located Favreau who physically resisted while being taken into custody, Cota said. Newport Embankment police were familiar with the doubtable because they had arrested him on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs the previous week. During that arrest, he assaulted one of their officers.
Favreau was placed in custody for felony evading of a peace officeholder, driving under the influence, hit and run, and possession of a controlled substance, Xanax, without a prescription.
The vehicle, which had Nevada license plates and Cota confirmed was a rental, was towed from the scene effectually 8:30 p.thousand. Information technology is unknown how Favreau came into possession of the vehicle, but he is not charged with auto theft at this time.
In his OCSD record, his occupation is listed as realtor. At that place is no record of under his name in the California Section of Real Estate database.
— Photo past Max Johnson ©
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