Exclusive: Vacaville police nab chase suspect in early morning raid
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Members of the Vacaville Police Department’s S.W.A.T. team carried out an early morning raid that led to the arrest of a police pursuit and domestic violence suspect.
The raid took place just after midnight on Friday at an apartment along the 800 block of Beelard Drive.
Three people were inside the apartment at the time, including a suspect wanted for leading police on a high-speed chase.
That chase happened in the early morning hours of July 2 after police attempted to pull the suspect over on an unspecified traffic violation. The suspect took off, leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase that wound through several city streets before ending with a crash and foot pursuit near an apartment complex near the intersection of Beelard Drive and Peabody Road.
Police were unable to locate him that night, but they quickly learned his identity and pinpointed his address to an apartment unit on Beelard Drive, according to dispatches reviewed by Solano NewsNet.
Investigators developed a case against the suspect, and a search warrant was executed on his home early Friday morning.
Police were able to remove two people from the apartment where the suspect was staying, but the wanted individual fled to a back bedroom of a unit.
“The S.W.A.T. team ended up having to deploy gas to get [the suspect] to exit the residence safely,” Lt. Aaron Dahl, a spokesperson for the Vacaville Police Department, told Solano NewsNet at a command post nearby.
Nearby apartment units were evacuated before police deployed the chemical agents.
The suspect, whose identity was not immediately available, surrendered to police a short time later. He was transported to an area hospital for medical treatment.
Dahl said the suspect faced a series of charges, including evasion of police, domestic violence and making terrorist threats.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story misidentified the rank of the Vacaville Police Department’s spokesperson. Aaron Dahl is a police lieutenant, not a sergeant.
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