Authorities surround Sacramento County home for five hours following CHP vehicle pursuit
Authorities on Tuesday afternoon surrounded a Gold River home where a suspect was holed up for about five hours after reportedly evading the California Highway Patrol in a vehicle pursuit.
The suspect was inside a home in the 11000 block of Hollenbeck Way, just north of Gold Country Boulevard in the Sacramento County suburb of Gold River, authorities said.
A CHP officer spotted the suspect, later identified as a 39-year-old man, about 4:30 p.m. driving a blue Toyota Tundra pickup in a dangerous and unsafe manner in Gold River, the CHP East Sacramento office announced Wednesday in a news release.
The officer tried to pull over the pickup, but the driver failed to stop, the CHP said. Then, the vehicle pursuit ensued.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Hollenbeck Way home about 4:30 p.m. after the CHP vehicle pursuit ended there, with the suspect getting out of the vehicle and escaping into the nearby home, said Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
Gandhi said deputies were there to assist the CHP as authorities tried to convince the suspect to come out of the home and peacefully surrender.
CHP crisis negotiators were called to the scene. Shortly after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, the suspect surrendered and was taken into custody without further incident or injury, the CHP said.
He was taken to a mental health facility for evaluation, the CHP said, and investigators seek criminal charges through the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office.
Gandhi said deputies were there to assist the CHP as authorities tried to convince the suspect to come out of the home and surrender.
This story was originally published April 2, 2024 at 6:14 PM.
