Irvine police arrested the driver of a van hauling more than $45,000 in stolen landscaping equipment, but his passenger ran away and was not found.
In the early morning hours of May 17, a police officer spotted a “suspicious” van leaving a dirt road for Irvine Boulevard, the Irvine Police Department said in a news release Wednesday.
The officer pulled the silver-colored van over, and as the driver pulled to the curb, both he and his passenger got out and ran. The officer chased and arrested the driver, 36-year-old Francisco Acosta, but his passenger continued fleeing.
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