Car chase ends in River Oaks yard

Things are hard in River Oaks these days: first there was the rat problem, and then early this morning, a police chase ended in one of the residents' front yards. The chase stared around 2:30 a.m. near West Dallas and Columbus when the suspect ran a red light and nearly hit a deputy sheriff's car head-on. When police gave chase, the suspect led them through Montrose and River Oaks for about 15 minutes, finally ending up crashing between two trees in the front yard of a house near South Shepherd and Chilton, about a mile away from where it all started.

Resident Dennis Smith said the suspect was "going in between all our cars and a big power line ... taking out mailboxes, all the flower beds." Sounds pretty exciting, huh? The suspect was trapped inside his car and had to be rescued; a teeanage passenger tried to escape on foot and was arrested. The driver could be charged with evading arrest.