{"id":496279,"date":"2026-01-06T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496279\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:36:25","slug":"wrong-way-driver-leads-police-chase-across-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496279\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver leads police chase across Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5kxp1gl6w2u02vrd.jpg\" alt=\"Alleged DUI driver seen going wrong way in Chatsworth\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8211; A driver is in handcuffs \u2013 but not before leading a half-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/police-chases\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">police chase<\/a> across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles&#8217; San Fernando Valley<\/a> neighborhoods and crashing the car into a pole.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">SkyFOX was over the scene as the suspect led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/organization\/lapd\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Police Department<\/a> on a chase on Monday, January 5.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver was initially wanted for possible DUI. Over the course of the half-hour police chase, the suspect was spotted driving the wrong way along roads in Encino, Canoga Park, Chatsworth and Winnetka before crashing the four-door vehicle in Reseda.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The suspect was eventually detained by LAPD around 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officials did not say if the suspect was linked to other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/police-chases\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Chases<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; A driver is in handcuffs \u2013 but not before leading a half-hour police chase across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6082,2961,224,5337,50,10781],"class_list":{"0":"post-496279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police-chases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115847717532681598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}