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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The antheral down Wednesday night's chaotic and unsafe pursuit done the streets of Los Angeles and Orange counties has been identified.
According to an update issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, 32-year-old Johnny Anchondo has been named the fishy who led authorities connected the pursuit that was heavy viewed by many.
During the chase, Anchondo was seen ramming into sheriff's cruisers, sideswiping cars and stealing aggregate vehicles during a hopeless effort to get away.
At 1 point, Anchondo was seen ditching 1 stolen vehicle, and bursting into a family's location to effort to hide. The household members and their pets were location and fought with him successful the driveway - 1 adjacent brandishing a weapon - aft helium stole the keys to their inferior truck. Anchondo smashed done their beforehand gross and took disconnected yet again.
During different melodramatic moment, Anchondo was pinned successful against a gated driveway by a constabulary vehicle.
Rather than springiness up astatine that point, helium deed reverse connected the stolen conveyance and smashed into the cruiser again and again, yet creating capable abstraction for him to plaything astir and fly again.
The full incidental lasted astir an hr and a fractional and lone ended erstwhile the stolen inferior motortruck - astatine slightest the 3rd conveyance Anchondo drove during the pursuit - crashed astatine a state presumption and was rammed by a sheriff's cruiser.
WATCH: Chase fishy successful stolen van rams constabulary cruiser aggregate times
Flames broke retired underneath the motortruck and eventually, deputies opened occurrence into the vehicle. They yet got Anchondo retired by smashing the windows and taking him into custody.
The sheriff's section said deputies utilized less-than-lethal unit erstwhile apprehending Anchondo.
According to tribunal records, Anchondo has an extended transgression past with respective convictions successful L.A. County for carjacking, reckless evading and joyriding.
In Riverside County, ABC7 recovered 18 cases filed nether his sanction - 2 of which are inactive progressive and see postulation violations.
Anchondo is presently being held connected a parole usurpation pending further charges.
Eyewitness News reached retired to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for remark and received the pursuing statement.
"As is our policy, we've reached retired to the investigating bureau earlier releasing committedness history. At the petition of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, due to the fact that of their ongoing investigation, nary accusation connected Johnny Anchondo volition beryllium provided astatine this time."
Meanwhile, a antithetic operator whose car was deed by Anchondo was besides detained astatine the extremity of the chase.
WATCH: Dangerous SoCal pursuit ends arsenic deputies sprout into stolen truck
Adrian Cruz told ABC7 helium was connected his mode location from work, and had his household successful the car, erstwhile the chaotic country unfolded successful beforehand of him. He past got retired of the car due to the fact that helium said helium wanted to get retired of the mode of immoderate imaginable crossfire.
"It conscionable sounded crazy, similar a warfare zone... truthful I got retired of the car immediately," Cruz said. "I don't privation my lad and my woman to beryllium a portion of that, truthful arsenic soon arsenic I get retired of the car the cops conscionable smash me, commencement socking maine up, smashing me, throwing maine successful the back, similar if I was the dude that stole the car."
Cruz said helium was released soon after.
Eyewitness News reached retired to the sheriff's section connected wherefore helium was detained, but has not heard back.
The guiltless victims who had their vehicles stolen by Anchondo are presently having to question alternate plans for proscription and work.
Community members person since stepped successful to assistance the victims.
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