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A 22-year-old woman suspected of stealing a car in Kings County led law officers on a bizarre chase from Reedley to the Kings County Jail on Tuesday afternoon, where she said she intended to turn herself in, the California Highway Patrol said.
CHP officer Adam Barresi gave this account: The woman and her female passenger stopped about 4 p.m. at a Reedley convenience store, where the passenger ran in and stole beer. The passenger then eluded a security guard who tried to arrest her and hopped back into a 1994 pink Ford Crown Victoria.
Reedley police, joined by the CHP and a Fresno County sheriff's helicopter, pursued the car on Highway 43 into Kings County, then down Highway 198 to Avenue 12, where the woman got off the freeway. She ran a red light and hit a Saturn Sky in the Avenue 12 and Centennial Drive intersection. She then drove to the Kings County Jail, where she parked and started walking toward the front door. She was arrested before she got inside, said Barresi, who marveled at the novelty of the chase.
"It's something you don't see every day," Barresi said. "You get in pursuit with someone in a pink car and they drive themselves to jail."
