A child would repeatedly poke his or her head out of the sunroof amid the standoff.
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During the standoff, the driver occasionally stepped out of the Hummer, clutching a young child as he faced law enforcement. Huntington Park officers called the Buena Park Police Department to assist.
The case was initially reported to Huntington Park police as a restraining order violation with a possible kidnapping of the two “small children” and the suspect’s girlfriend.
Police said the chase involving a gray Hummer began in Buena Park shortly before 5 p.m. Monday.
An officer saw the Hummer driving north on Beach Boulevard at Commonwealth and made a U-turn to pursue it, Nunez said. “He started attempting to evade”.
Authorities pursued a Hummer SUV on the southbound I-5 freeway as it rolled through Buena Park, Anaheim and Santa Ana, where it was slowed down by heavy traffic. The chase reached Tustin, transitioned to the southbound 55 Freeway then to I-405 in Irvine.
Police blocked off Dover Drive in all directions from Pacific Coast Highway to 16th Street.
A man remains at large on suspicion of kidnapping and leading authorities on a chase across several Orange County freeways that ended in a freakish hours-long standoff Monday night.
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Officer Florentino Olivera of the CHP told KCBS-TV Channel 2 that there are believed to be two children and a female passenger inside the vehicle. Around 7 p.m., the suspect even stopped and spoke with negotiators, but then quickly sped off down a residential road in Newport Beach.
