Wanted for Speeding. He Made It a Pursuit. | LASD Pursuit Breakdown

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, Election Day. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies from Lakewood Station tried to stop a black sedan in the Bellflower and Paramount area. The only reason put out publicly was speeding. He ran.

This is my old department. I started as a CSO in that area in 1996, and I worked those streets as a deputy sheriff. So here’s what I’m watching.

Speeding alone doesn’t keep an LASD pursuit going. Under the department’s policy, a watch commander cancels a chase like this fast. They cancel stolen-vehicle pursuits fast. So when this one kept going, there was almost certainly another reason they wanted him, one the public didn’t hear about.

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Deputies tried spike strips before the news helicopters picked it up, and it didn’t work. From there it stayed on surface streets at low speeds in light traffic, and you can see the deputies doing it right: units racing ahead to clear intersections so cross traffic can’t get hit, the sheriff’s airship overhead calling it, and the cars behind him just following.

Midway through, he tossed a backpack out the window on a turn. Somebody will stop and recover that, and it’s probably evidence of whatever they really wanted him for. Later he was on his phone while driving, which is what you watch for: a driver setting up a ride around the corner so he can bail and jump in his buddy’s car.

It ended in a strip-mall parking lot near Alondra Boulevard and Downey Avenue. He pulled in and basically pinned himself. Deputies were already out on foot, and they pulled him out through the window. That isn’t how it usually goes. Any other time you’d see a full felony stop. But the position he put himself in made it work, and nobody got hurt. Good job.

No charges were on record when I recorded this, and he is presumed innocent.

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