Warrant issued for woman accused of police pursuit

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Spring Valley woman who allegedly led police on a 175-mile pursuit that began in El Cajon and ended with a spike strip laid down in the Santa Clarita Valley.

The warrant was issued Nov. 6 when Adelquin Deguzman Torres, 43, failed to appear in court.

She was to have been arraigned on charges of evading police and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors.

But, when she failed to appear in court at the Santa Clarita courthouse, the bench warrant was issued, said Ricardo Santiago, spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

On July 17, officers with the Newhall Station of the California Highway Patrol were notified of a “multiarea pursuit” of a vehicle traveling northbound on I-5 within the Central Los Angeles CHP Area, CHP Officer Josh Greengard said Wednesday morning.

They learned the pursuit had traveled through many areas along the coast after leaving El Cajon near San Diego and the driver was wanted for speeding.

Shortly after 10 p.m. that night, local CHP officers took over the pursuit from Altadena CHP units.

“With a successful spike strip deployment just north of McBean Parkway, the driver of the vehicle came to a stop, within the northbound lanes, south of Valencia Boulevard,” Greengard said in July.

CHP officers issued several commands to the driver to get out of the car but she did not comply, Greengard said at the time..

“Officers approached the vehicle and the driver raised both hands above her head and slowly began to open the driver’s side door,” he said.

As officers began to take the woman into custody, she began actively resisting, he said.

Spring Valley is a community on the east side of

San Diego County.