Crime & Safety
Fremont Police, CHP Pursue Stolen Vehicle Across Bridge: Arrest
The woman arrested was released from the scene, as coronavirus dictates who is taken to jail.
FREMONT, CA — A car stolen in Fremont was tracked and pursued across the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge to San Mateo, where a woman with a long rap sheet for thefts in Alameda, Santa Clara, El Dorado, and Sacramento counties was arrested. She was released from the scene without ever being taken to jail because of coronavirus restrictions.
Fremont Police report that she is also on probation out of El Dorado County for possession of a stolen vehicle.
The car was stolen shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday from an car repair shop on Fremont Boulevatd. A delivery driver was delivering car parts to the business when the car was stolen. He had left his cell phone in the car, and police tracked the vehicle using the “find my iPhone” app.
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Fremont patrol officers caught up with the car on northbound Interstate Highway 880 at Whipple Road, joined by several California Highway Patrol units.
The driver initially at the Highway 92 junction, but then sped away from the stop. CHP units pursued the vehicle across the bridge while a CHP Air Unit responded to assist.
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CHP lost sight of the car for a short time, but located it later in San Mateo.
They stopped the car, arrested the driver for possession of a stolen vehicle, and then released her. She is identified as 41-year-old Georgina Ornelas of Placerville.
Police say that while Ornelas was driving the car when it was stopped, the man who stole it and was initially stopped on I-880 was a black male adult, approximately 20 years old, with curly hair. He has not been arrested.
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