Inexplicable Mar Vista Police Chase Drags On For Nearly 2 Hours

LOS ANGELES, CA — Police arrested a man and a woman following an inexplicable 1 1/2 hour pursuit that started in Mar Vista Monday.

It all started when police tried to pull over a suspicious vehicle in a neighborhood suffering a rash of burglaries Officers attempted to pull over a vehicle at about 1:20 a.m. at Venice Boulevard and Boise Avenue , Lt. J. Sanchez of the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Station said. But the pair wouldn't stop.

"They weren't driving crazy, they just wouldn't pull over," he said.

The pursuit took officers from the west to the east side of the city and they occasionally dropped back and let a helicopter follow the vehicle, but it still didn't stop, Sanchez said. Eventually, the car pulled over in the downtown area, and the woman got out, said Sanchez. Police arrested her and continued the chase.

At Mission Road and Broadway in Lincoln Heights officers used a PIT maneuver, bumping a rear corner of the vehicle, causing it to spin out of control, Sanchez said. The man was taken into custody without incident.

Officers were interviewing the suspects to determine why they fled while checking to see if the vehicle might have been stolen, Sanchez said.

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.