Chase suspect flees on skateboard, stopped by pickup truck driver

VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES -- A suspect wanted for allegedly stealing a BMW sedan led police on a chase in Los Angeles, bailed out on foot, and attempted to get away on a skateboard before he was blocked by a Good Samaritan in a pickup truck as officers arrived.

It began when the suspect exited the 405 Freeway at Victory Boulevard at about 3:40 p.m. PT and drove on surface streets in Van Nuys at high speeds, reaching up to 90 mph at times.

The suspect then crashed into the back of another vehicle in stopped traffic, jumped out of the BMW, and ran into oncoming traffic with a longboard skateboard in his arms.

After running some more, he then jumped on his skateboard and rode the sidewalk for less than half a block before heading into traffic again.

That's when pickup truck driver Lou Pizzaro followed the suspect and blocked him by a gate.

The suspect was immediately arrested without incident.

"I seen the guy running with a skateboard in his hand, and he's running from the cops, they're like right on him, there's about six or seven cops, and he got on his skateboard and he started moving, and it was just instinct just to block the guy off, slow him down a little bit," Pizarro told KABC. "That's all I could do.

No officers were injured.

The suspect was not immediately identified.