Police chase of stolen car ends in crash

A police chase involving a stolen vehicle ended with an SUV flipping over on its roof in northwest Atlanta.

WSB-TV reported that a Georgia State Patrol car also was damaged in the Friday morning crash.

Officers spotted a stolen SUV a couple of blocks away from the crash site. Atlanta police said they tried to pull over the driver but she wouldn’t stop.

The Georgia State Patrol joined in the chase and helped bring it to an end.

The patrol car received significant rear-end damage but the officer wasn’t injured. The SUV flipped. Debris was scattered across the road and into the yards of nearby homes.

The female suspect was treated at a local hospital and taken into custody. Suspect escapes after SWAT call Authorities are searching for a man who they said barricaded himself in a Stone Mountain house with his three children before leaving a SWAT standoff.

The situation began about 5 p.m. Friday with a call about a domestic disturbance and ended early Saturday after about 13 hours. When the SWAT team got in the house the man was not inside, according to Channel 2 Action News.

The children, ages 17, 12 and 3, were found unharmed. Channel 2 reported.

Neighbors who live off Wood Hollow Way weren’t allowed into their homes, and a MARTA bus was used as a warming station for those who were displaced, the news station reported.