California Highway Patrol officers said a stolen-vehicle investigation led to a brief pursuit and then an arrest, after working with the Antelope Valley-area Office and the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.
Carlos Burgos-Lopez, spokesman for the CHP Newhall-area Office, said station officers were monitoring radio traffic regarding a stolen-vehicle investigation around 9:16 p.m. Tuesday.
The report involved a stolen black GMC Sierra heading north on State Route 14, south of Sand Canyon Road, he said.
Newhall CHP units began to respond, he said, and Antelope Valley officers spotted the GMC on Sierra Highway, near Palmdale Boulevard, and the driver fled as soon as they tried to pull over his vehicle, he said.
Burgos-Lopez identified the driver they arrested as Ian Kianduma Karune, 20, of Los Angeles.
“The suspect drove back to (the southbound lanes of State Route 14) and CHP Newhall-area units were able to get into position to intercept the vehicle,” he wrote. “As the suspect vehicle entered the CHP’s Newhall area, units deployed a spike strip and had a successful spike on (the southbound lanes of State Route 14), north of Escondido Canyon Road.”
Burgos-Lopez said Karune did not stop after hitting the spike strips, despite having one tire deflated. Instead, Karune used State Route 14 to get onto Interstate 5, and then Interstate 405.
Karune pulled off at the Roscoe Boulevard exit, according to Burgos-Lopez, where Karune was arrested “without further incident.”
He was booked at the SCV Sheriff’s Station at 10:26 p.m. on two felonies: suspicion of driving or taking a vehicle without consent and evading arrest.
Karune also was on probation for a separate felony evading arrest charge at the time of his arrest, according to Burgos-Lopez.
He was still listed as in custody as of this story’s publication. Karune is due in court Thursday.
