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High-speed chase ends with 3 arrests

Westminster police officers arrested three people Monday after

they allegedly led authorities on about a 30-minute, high-speed chase

through several cities in a car reported stolen in Costa Mesa,

officials said.

The 1998 Honda Accord was reported stolen shortly before midnight

Sunday from a 7-Eleven store at Harbor Boulevard and Gisler Avenue,

Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Tim Starn said. He did not know the names of

those arrested.

A couple of hours later, Starn, who was flying in a police

helicopter at the time, said he noticed an intermittent signal from a

LoJack theft recovery system from a car near Bolsa Avenue and

Brookhurst Street in Huntington Beach.

The chase involved patrol units from several area police

departments. Authorities in the helicopter, shared by Costa Mesa and

Newport Beach, trailed the Accord when it was on the San Diego and

Garden Grove freeways. The chase ended near the Euclid Avenue offramp

on the Riverside Freeway, Starn said.

The car was damaged after the driver veered off the freeway and

hit a curb, he said. The car’s occupants were arrested as soon as

they ditched it at the Euclid offramp, Starn said.