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Pursuit Ends with Male Arrested For Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Kidnapping

On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at approximately 5:15 p.m., the Glendale Police Department received a 911 call during which Glendale Police Dispatchers could hear an active struggle going on between a male and a female before the phone disconnected.  Glendale Police immediately received a second call from a person reporting that a male was beating up a female in the area of Harvard St and Chevy Chase Dr and officers were dispatched to the area.  The female victim called 911 again and dispatch could hear a continued struggle during which the female began screaming hysterically.

Officers arrived on scene within a minute of the first 911 call and located the suspect, later identified as 28-year-old Saul Trujillo of Santa Clarita, leaning into a vehicle with a female seated in the front passenger seat.  As officers attempted to contact Trujillo, he fled in the vehicle, ramming into one of the marked Glendale Police patrol units.  Glendale Police units initiated a vehicle pursuit of Trujillo, during which Trujillo crashed into multiple occupied and parked unoccupied vehicles.  The pursuit stayed within the general area of Downtown Glendale and ended when Trujillo collided into vehicles in the area of Glendale Ave and Broadway.

When officers attempted to take Trujillo into custody, he was unresponsive to their commands and became combative.  Officers deployed a Taser, a brief struggle ensued and Trujillo was taken into custody.  Trujillo was arrested and booked for kidnapping, felony assault, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and a parole violation.

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