The Brief
- Five teenagers were hospitalized after crashing a stolen sedan into a traffic light pole during a brief Dallas police pursuit late Tuesday night.
- The incident began when a man was carjacked at gunpoint in Old East Dallas; police later tracked the vehicle using a license plate reader camera.
- Officers found multiple handguns inside the wrecked vehicle, and charges against the five juvenile suspects are currently pending.
DALLAS – Five teenagers were hospitalized late Tuesday night after crashing a carjacked sedan into a traffic light pole during a brief police chase, Dallas authorities said.
Carjacking and crash
What we know:
The incident began at 10:37 p.m. in Old East Dallas, where a man was carjacked at gunpoint by a group of armed juvenile suspects in the 4500 block of Live Oak Street, according to Dallas Police Department records. The suspects left the scene in the victim’s white Honda sedan.
Just before 11 p.m., a Flock license plate recognition camera flagged the stolen vehicle at an apartment complex in the 9400 block of Bruton Road in Pleasant Grove.…