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A deputy began to follow the man on Railroad Avenue in Newhall after a license plate scanner identified the Nissan Sentra he was driving as a stolen vehicle, said Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Wyman.
The deputy continued to follow the Canyon Country man into a Saugus neighborhood. Once on Alaminos Drive, the man got out of his car and fled past the yards of nearby homes and an adjacent wash.
Deputies caught the man running on Rosedell Drive and arrested him for grand theft auto. He also had a couple of high-bail warrants, said Lt. Tom Bryski.
Alaminos Drive resident Jim Van Cleave had just returned home from work when he noticed the abandoned Sentra slowly rolling toward him. The Sentra knocked over and damaged his mailbox.
“All I saw was this car rolling gradually toward me with no driver in it,” he said. “I’m happy it hit the mailbox and not my work truck.”
Sheriff’s deputies are investigating whether the arrested man was also a suspect in an earlier burglary, Wyman said.
