From Chelsea Phua:
A police pursuit in Elk Grove early Saturday morning ended with a suspected car thief crashing the stolen vehicle into a south Sacramento house with sleeping occupants, authorities said.
Officer Christopher Trim said Sedrick McKenny, 44, who is also known as Cedrick McKinney and other various aliases, allegedly fled with the vehicle - a 2003 white Lincoln Navigator - from a gas station near Laguna Boulevard and Laguna Springs Drive shortly after 4 a.m.
The vehicle's owner was inside the store at the gas station and had left the engine running, Trim said.
Police officers spotted the stolen vehicle on Old Creek Drive, not far from the gas station and attempted to stop the driver, who did not obey the officers' commands.
The chase ensued, ending with the vehicle crashing into a house in the 4900 block of Summerbrook Way in South Sacramento, Trim said. Occupants inside were sleeping at that time.
"Thankfully no one was injured," Trim said.
The suspect tried to flee on foot, but was captured in the rear yard of the residence, Trim said.
McKenny is being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail and is ineligible for bail because he violated his parole, online jail records show.
McKenny is also being held on suspicion of several felony charges, including first-degree robbery, theft and unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle, evading a police officer and driving in a reckless manner and opposite to the flow of traffic, records show.
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