By Bee Staff
Sacramento County sheriff's deputies recently conducted two pursuits of suspected car thieves and came away with two recovered vehicles and five arrests, according to a crime summary released this week.
Both chases and resulting arrests occurred on one day - April 29, according to the summary, which gave this account of the cases:
At about 7:30 p.m., a deputy spotted three people in car with a license plate that had been reported stolen.
When the deputy tried to stop the vehicle, it sped off and a pursuit followed. The chase ended at Bell Street and Northrop Avenue where the fleeing car hit a parked vehicle.
All three occupants ran away. Deputies aided by K-9 units and the sheriff's helicopter later found the three occupants.
The driver, a 16-year-old male, was arrested on various theft and motor-vehicle code violations. The other two occupants of the car, also juveniles, were booked on outstanding warrants.
At about 11:30 p.m., deputies spotted two men in a vehicle that had been reported carjacked.
The driver failed to halt and a high-speed pursuit followed before the vehicle halted in the area of Florin Road and Stockton Boulevard.
The driver fled, but was found about 100 yards away, hiding in a trash can, deputies said.
The driver - Wesley Applewhite, 26 - was booked into jail on suspicion of various related charges. He still was in jail today on a no-bail parole violation as of this afternoon.
The second person in the car was not charged, records indicate.
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