Chase from Truckee ends in SLT with parolee jailed

By Lake Tahoe News

A chase that started in Truckee on Wednesday involving a stolen vehicle ended in South Lake Tahoe with a Bay Area man taken into custody.

Raheem Ahmed Hanif, 35, of Rodeo was booked on grand theft auto, evading a police officer and resisting arrest. He was on parole, but for what was not immediately known.

The incident started the morning of Jan. 31. Truckee officers were alerted to a Jeep Renegade having been stolen from Reno. It was being tracked by its GPS system. Truckee officers stopped the vehicle, but then the suspect fled as they approached.

Truckee officers stopped the pursuit when the vehicle left the town limits.

GPS then traced the Jeep to Highway 89 south in Tahoe City, where California Highway Patrol officers joined the chase. The suspect refused to stop.

CHP and El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies deployed spike strips that deflated the Jeep’s tires. But the suspect kept going.

CHP officers then used a maneuver to force the fleeing vehicle to turn sideways. The vehicle came to a stop on Highway 89 near Eighth Street.

The suspect refused to surrender.

“CHP officers eventually approached the Jeep, broke out the right front window, and unlocked the door. Hanif was then taken into custody,” officers said.

Bail was set at $30,000.