A police chase for a black Mercedes Benz without license plates began in Riverside County before the chase driver ran inside a Walmart in Orange County on Monday night.
Newschopper4 was chased around the Anaheim Hills area at about 10:30 p.m., with a black car driving west at slow speeds on Highway 91 westbound.
The chase began at 9:57 p.m., Riverside police said. The pursuit began with the violation of a vehicle code. According to police in Riverside, no number plates were missing in the car and there were three people in it when the pursuit was launched, but one passenger got out of the pursuit vehicle in Riverside.
The car was traveling at about 55 km per hour on the highway, so it was not a fast chase.
Around 22:47, the car pulled off the highway onto shallow streets in the Buena Park area and started driving slightly more erratically, stopping occasionally.
At one of the stops, the black car came to a stop in the middle of the street before a rear passenger door popped open and a woman jumped out of the car.
Shortly after 11pm, the driver pulled into a shopping center in Westminster before driving onto the curb and pulling the car directly in front of the main entrance to a Walmart before running into it.
About five to ten minutes later, it looked like police were detaining someone in a corner nearby. The Anaheim police station confirmed that the man who was detained was believed to be the driver in the chase and that he had been arrested.