PASADENA — Two Pasadena men were expected to face charges Thursday on suspicion of stealing two cars, police said.
Officers were on patrol about 2 a.m. Wednesday when he spotted two suspicious Honda Civics stopped at Mountain Street, near the 210 Freeway, Pasadena police officials said in a written statement.
After watching the driver of one of the cars exit the vehicle and get into the passenger seat of the other, “officers believed the suspects were abandoning a stolen car,” the statement said.
Officers tried to pull the car over as it drove away, but it fled a short distance before the driver lost control and crashed into a parked van and a utility pole at Sunset Avenue and Washington Place, police said.
Both suspects were hospitalized, though their names and the extent of the their injuries was not available, officials said. They will be arrested upon their release from the hospital.
Both of the Civics were determined to be stolen, officials said. The one that was crashed was taken from Rancho Cucamonga, and the one that was abandoned was taken from Los Angeles.