High-speed chase leads to crash, arrest

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Jose Carlos Iniguez, 39, of Nice, Calif., was arrested following a high-speed vehicle pursuit on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Lake County Jail photo.




 


LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – An early morning pursuit on Tuesday ended with the arrest of a man, after he lost control of his vehicle.


Jose Carlos Iniguez, 39, of Nice, was arrested following the rollover crash on Westlake Drive according to Sgt. Steve Brooks of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.


At 2 a.m. Tuesday deputies were responding to a report of a home invasion robbery in Upper Lake. It was reported that the suspects involved in the robbery left in a vehicle, but the victim did not see the vehicle and was unable to provide a description, Brooks said.


Lake County Sheriff’s Sgt. Andy Davidson, who was responding to the robbery, noticed a vehicle traveling southbound on Lakeshore Boulevard at a high rate of speed. Brooks said Davidson temporarily lost site of the vehicle and believed it had pulled off on a side street.


Davidson began searching the area with the assistance of the Lakeport Police Department. As he was traveling northbound on Lakeshore Boulevard near Miramonte Way, he relocated the vehicle ahead of him, Brooks said.


The vehicle was identified as a silver Chevy Impala. As Davidson caught up to the vehicle it crossed over the double yellow line and was traveling approximately 60 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour zone, according to Brooks.


Davidson activated his emergency lights and attempted an enforcement stop near the Hill Road East Intersection. Brooks said the vehicle slowed, but continued northbound on Lakeshore Boulevard.


He said the vehicle then accelerated to approximately 80 miles per hour, ran the stop sign at the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff and crossed onto Westlake Drive.


The driver turned off all of the vehicle’s lights and accelerated to approximately 90 miles per hour, driving in the opposite lane of traffic through a left turn, Brooks said.


The driver then lost control of the vehicle and drove off the right side of the roadway, Brooks said. The vehicle left the road, went up an embankment and rolled end over end, landing upside down on the roadway.


The driver, later identified as Iniguez, exited the passenger side door and started running southbound on Westlake Drive, Brooks said. Davidson took Iniguez into custody moments later.


Iniguez was booked at the Lake County Jail for felony evading a peace officer, a felony parole violation, and misdemeanor charges of driving while under the influence, driving without a license and obstructing an officer. He was being held without bail due to the alleged parole violation, according to jail records.


Brooks said the California Highway Patrol is conducting the collision investigation.


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