A 40-year-old man from Los Angeles was arrested Wednesday after a wild sequence of events that started in Yosemite in an allegedly stolen car and ended with a crash in a second stolen vehicle about 20 miles south of the national park.
The California Highway Patrol in Oakhurst said Thursday it was alerted at 2:41 Wednesday to “be on the lookout” for a Kia Soul after it had been pursued within the national park by park rangers. The driver reportedly had been driving recklessly in the park, including throwing beer cans out of the window, CHP said.
Soon after, officers got reports that a Kia had crashed in Fish Camp on White Chief Mountain Road near Tenaya Lodge, about three miles south of Yosemite’s southern entrance on Highway 41, and that the man fled on a bicycle…