Early Wednesday morning, LAPD Topanga Area patrol units responded to what would unfold as a series of commercial burglaries in Woodland Hills, leading to a swift vehicle pursuit, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers arrived at a shoe store in the 7200 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard around 3:30 a.m. on August 13th to disrupt the crimes in action, where they encountered four suspects attempting to escape.
After the suspects' defiance to surrender and subsequent attempt to flee the scene in a white van, officers gave chase which led to a chase that was brief before it transitioned to a foot pursuit, witnessing two suspects abandon the vehicle in an alley behind Owensmouth Avenue, one of whom, identified as 36-year-old Terry Sutton, they apprehended while the others slipped out of the law's grasp, setting up a perimeter to contain the situation. Further investigation revealed the same group of suspects was involved in another nearby burglary, their illegal tour spanning multiple locations along Topanga Canyon Boulevard, their detritus evident in the trove of stolen items later recovered inside their abandoned vehicle.
The diligent efforts to catalog the night's events paid off with video surveillance linking the suspects to the crimes; despite this evidence, only one of the suspected quartet is currently in custody. Terry Sutton now faces a booking for commercial burglary under booking number 6864575, as reported by the LAPD; the Commercial Crimes Division has since taken the helm of the investigation, pressing forward in the mission to locate the remaining suspects.
