A 26-year-old man from Phoenix, Arizona, was taken into custody after an alleged train burglary that led to a dangerous wrong-way pursuit on a Southern California interstate, authorities announced Tuesday.
The Jan. 26 incident occurred around 3:30 p.m. in Needles, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
Deputies with the department’s Colorado River Sheriff’s Station were assisting BSNF Railroad Police after receiving reports of a possible train burglary and a suspect, now identified as Joan Moises Valdez-Acuna, fleeing the scene in a white van…