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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A pursuit of a stolen conveyance done respective cities ended with an apprehension acknowledgment to the assistance of aggregate agencies, Visalia constabulary said.
Officers attempted a postulation halt connected what they believed to beryllium a stolen conveyance adjacent Caldwell Avenue and Lover's Lane astir 8:45 p.m. Friday.
They said the vehicle's driver, 47-year-old Dennis Teal, refused to stop, which started the pursuit.
The operator led officers to the country of Road 156 and Noble Avenue wherever the determination was made to halt pursuing Teal connected the crushed owed to nationalist information concerns.
At that point, the Kings County Sheriff's Office's AIR 2 arrived and continued to show Teal via aerial and relayed updates to the Tulare County's Sheriff's Office.
Despite the pursuit being called off, instrumentality enforcement said Teal drove recklessly done aggregate metropolis and region areas, which created a nationalist information threat.
Other instrumentality enforcement agencies got progressive and coordinated efforts to deploy spike strips to effort to halt the vehicle.
TCSO deputies said that contempt experiencing a postulation collision successful Tulare, Teal continued to thrust toward Exeter.
At 1 point, they said helium drove implicit a spike portion and a beforehand tyre was disabled. However, that didn't halt him from driving connected the rim arsenic helium returned to Visalia.
When helium reached a dormant extremity successful Patterson Tract, Visalia Police and the Tulare County Regional Auto Theft Task Force (TRATT) were capable to drawback him aft helium tried to fly connected foot.
Teal was booked into the Tulare County Pre-Trial Adult Detention Facility connected suspicion of felony evading and possession of a stolen vehicle.
