Tesla Auto Burglars Drive On I-80 Shoulder To Escape Police

HERCULES, CA — A suspect escaped from a police chase after he allegedly broke into a Tesla outside a grocery store in Hercules Tuesday afternoon, according to police.

The auto burglary was reported outside a Lucky supermarket at 1590 Sycamore Ave., just after 1 p.m. Tuesday.

The suspect got into a 4-door Infiniti sedan with the license plate blacked out and fled, but an officer caught up with a vehicle matching that description on San Pablo Avenue. The officer conducted a traffic stop, and the suspect yielded, but as the officer was approaching the vehicle on foot the driver took off and led police on a pursuit heading west on Interstate Highway 80.

The officers stopped following for safety reasons around the Pinole Valley Road exit because the Infiniti was traveling on the shoulder of the roadway and endangering other drivers.

There were two suspects inside the Infiniti, according to police. They were described as black men in their 20s. The driver had short hair and the passenger had long dreadlocks.

Further details were not immediately available.

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— Bay City News; Image via Hercules Police Department