PLEASANTON — A police pursuit led to a man driving the wrong way on a freeway and eventually abandoning his vehicle before his capture early Wednesday, police said.
Police identified the suspect as Calvin Fries, 33, and said they used police dogs to aid in the arrest. According to police, Fries abandoned a white Ford F-150 pickup truck about a mile south of the Sunol Boulevard on-ramp to northbound Interstate 680, and was arrested after police surrounded that area.
He is suspected of driving south onto northbound I-680 and going against the flow of traffic, police said. Once the truck was abandoned, another car on the freeway collided with it, police said.
That driver was not injured, according to police.
Fries was arrested on suspicion of obstruction, reckless driving on a highway or freeway; evading with a disregard for safety and evading while driving the wrong way. He was being held at the Santa Rita Jail in lieu of $160,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
It all started around 12:05 a.m. when police tried to pull over the pickup truck near the intersection of Sunol Boulevard and Arlington Drive. The truck didn’t yield on got onto northbound I-680 going the right way, police said. The truck eventually exited at Stoneridge Drive.
After exiting, the truck then got back onto the northbound 680 going in the reverse direction, police said. Officers immediately called off the chase, police said, and instead got onto southbound I-680. They found the truck about a mile down the freeway.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office also searched the area after the chase, and Fries was the only one arrested, police said. Police are still investigating and urged anyone with information to contact 925-931-5100.
