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COARSEGOLD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A commercialized burglary turned pursuit led to 4 radical down bars this evening.
Shortly earlier 5 a.m. Sunday, the Madera County Sheriff's Office received a telephone for a work for an alarm astatine Pedal Forward Bikes & Adventure successful Oakhurst, officials say.
According to officials, the alarm institution reported 2 men with their faces covered wrong the store stealing bicycles and loading them into a achromatic van, which was gone erstwhile sheriffs arrived astatine the country 5 minutes later.
Meanwhile, a lawman successful the Coarsgold country spotted a achromatic Ford E-350 van passing him traveling southbound connected Highway 41. He attempted to initiate a postulation halt with the van, but the operator failed to yield, starring to an 11-mile pursuit. After deputies successfully deployed spike strips connected Highway 41 and Highway 145, the van continued driving with level tires, until crashing into an embankment adjacent Madera Canal southbound of Avenue 15 according to the Madera County Sheriff's Office.
Officials accidental that aft crashing, the 4 suspects fled the van and ran successful abstracted directions. Three of the suspects were rapidly caught by deputies, aboriginal identified arsenic 62-year-old Orlan Doser, 58-year-old Earwin McCullar, and 57-year-old Manuel Tejeda, each retired of Fresno.
After returning to the area, deputies located the 4th and past outstanding suspect, identified arsenic 27-year-old Issac Alvarez retired of Fresno, officials say.
Deputies were capable to retrieve 8 bicycles that were wrong the van that were confirmed stolen from Pedal Forward Bikes & Adventures, each returned to the owner. The bicycles were valued astatine a combined full of implicit $20,000.
"This was a large collaborative squad effort betwixt Deputies from the East County Mountain and Valley divisions," says Sheriff Tyson Pogue connected the arrest. "I applaud our team’s efforts successful resolving this incidental safely and successfully.”
