{"id":418984,"date":"2026-07-31T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418984\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:02:14","slug":"chase-ends-in-crash-shutting-down-eastbound-105-freeway-in-south-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418984\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase ends in crash, shutting down eastbound 105 Freeway in South LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 31, 2026 1:54AM<\/p>\n<p>A suspected human trafficker was arrested after a brief chase ended in a crash that shut down part of the 105 Freeway in South L.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A suspected human trafficker was taken into custody Thursday afternoon after leading police on a brief chase that ended in a crash and temporary shutdown of the eastbound 105 Freeway in South Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AIR7 was over the scene on the eastbound 105 near the 110 Freeway around 4:20 p.m., where the suspect&#8217;s vehicle had crashed and overturned onto its side against a freeway barrier. Several police vehicles surrounded the overturned car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video from AIR7 showed traffic backed up for miles amid the afternoon rush hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Following the crash, a brief standoff ensued before officers flipped the vehicle back onto its wheels and took the suspect into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The eastbound lanes of the 105 Freeway were shut down during the standoff with Los Angeles police officers. Two lanes later reopened after the suspect was arrested and all eastbound lanes reopened shortly before 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the pursuit lasted about 30 seconds. Police have not released details about what prompted the chase.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, July 31, 2026 1:54AM A suspected human trafficker was arrested after a brief chase ended in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167523,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-418984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-167523","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}