Prelim hearing reshuffled for man charged with attempted burglary, evading officers
A 42-year-old Alameda man returns to Solano County Superior Court in the coming weeks for a preliminary hearing following his mid-September arrest on charges stemming from an attempted burglary investigation in rural Fairfield that escalated into a vehicle chase that ended with the suspect ramming a patrol car before crashing into a truck that disabled his truck and led to a brief foot chase.
Steven Hanna on Monday appeared in Department 9 for a readiness conference and a pretrial services report, but Judge Carlos R. Gutierrez ordered him to return for the same matters at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 26 and reset a preliminary hearing for 10 a.m. Nov. 9 in the Justice Center in Fairfield.
At his jail arraignment on Sept. 20 in the Hall of Justice, Hanna apparently pleaded not guilty and Commissioner Bryan J. Kim set his bail at $360,000.
Hanna is being represented by the Solano County Public Defender and remains in the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield.
The chaos started around 3:30 p.m. Sept. 16, when Solano County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Mankas Corner Road on a report of an “occupied residential burglary in progress.”
The victim said a man was attempting to break into her home. He was trying to open doors and windows, she said, and cut a hole in a window screen. When she yelled at him, he reportedly took off in a black Toyota pickup.
As deputies spoke with the woman, the suspect drove by the home and was identified by the victim as the suspect, officials said. Deputies ordered the suspect to stop but he sped off, officials said, leading deputies — and later the California Highway Patrol — on an estimated 42-minute pursuit through Suisun Valley and Highway 12 in the Rio Vista area. A CHP air unit also joined the pursuit.
At one point, the suspect rammed a deputy’s patrol car. He then collided with a large Ford F350 pickup and disabled his black Toyota truck before running through an open field near Highway 12 and Denverton Road, officials said.
That’s when he surrendered, officials said, and was arrested.
His truck was later determined to be a stolen vehicle.
Hanna was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon; attempted burglary; evading police with a wanton disregard for safety; evading police/being a wrong-way driver; vehicle theft; hit-and-run, and resisting arrest.