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Hawthorne and Heavey continued to pursue the 4Runner northboundas it passed Avenida De Los Arboles at approximately 70 miles perhour. Shortly after passing Arboles, the 4Runner drove from thefar-left traffic lane over a raised plastic pylon and into aconstruction zone, where it was able to speed past traffic. The4Runner continued northbound on the 23 Freeway, traveling atapproximately 80 miles per hour as it passed Olsen Road. As the4Runner approached Tierra Rejada Road, it was traveling atapproximately 90 to 95 miles per hour. As the 4Runner mergedonto SR 118, it entered the center divide of the roadway andalmost caused a collision with another vehicle. The 4Runnercontinued eastbound on SR 118, traveling at approximately 70miles per hour as it passed Collins Drive and Madera Road. Asthe 4Runner passed Madera Road, at approximately 4:05 p.m., CHPunits arrived in order to take over the pursuit and deputiesHawthorne and Heavey dropped back. CHP officers eventuallymanaged to stop the vehicle in the area of SR 118 and PorterRanch Drive.18. Soon after CHP officers stopped the 4Runner, VCSDSenior Deputy Jeffrey Hill arrived at scene of the stop. Heobserved that the 4Runner was in the middle of Porter Ranch Road,facing westbound. The front of a CHP patrol car, facingsouthbound, was in contact with the front passenger door of the4Runner. A suspect, later identified as SALINAS, was inhandcuffs and in the back seat of a CHP unit.19. CHP Officer Dockus advised VCSD Deputy Dean Cook thatduring the pursuit of the 4Runner, CHP officers observed the6
driver of the 4Runner discarding items out of the 4Runner'swindow onto the highway. CHP Officers later recovered thefollowing items, which Officer Dockus gave to Deputy Cook: oneorange hat, which Officer Dockus described as being found in thethird-from-left lane of the eastbound SR 118 east of DeSotoAvenue; and one black sweatshirt, which Officer Dockus describedas being found in the third-from-left lane of the eastbound SR118 east of Rocky Peak.C. Field Identifications20. VCSD Deputies Ives and Saleh transported the victimteller, Rafael Torres III, to the location of the vehicle stop.Upon arrival, Deputy Ives gave Torres the VCSD’s standardadmonitions for field identifications. The Deputies positionedtheir patrol vehicle approximately 20 yards from the suspect andturned on the headlights and spotlights of their patrol vehicle.Torres made a positive identification of SALINAS as the robberand said, "Yeah, that's him."21. VCSD Deputy Michael Rompal transported John Ashley tothe location of the vehicle stop at approximately 4:45 p.m. Uponarrival, Deputy Rompal gave Ashley the VCSD’s standardadmonitions for field identifications. As they approached,Ashley positively identified the 4Runner as the car he had seenat the scene of the robbery, and identified SALINAS as therobber. Ashley said, "That's definitely the car. That's the hat.That's definitely him."22. VCSD Deputy Rick Cochrane placed SALINAS under arrest.SALINAS provided his name as JESSE JAMES SALINAS, SR. Deputy7
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