Vongdara Vongvichitch arrested after crashing stolen car on Limerick Avenue near San Diego, California

A man was taken into custody early Thursday morning following a police pursuit that began in University City and ended in Clairemont. At about 4:50 a.m., a clerk at the United Oil gas station on Governor Drive near Genesee Avenue called San Diego police about a man who tried to smash a store window with a sledgehammer. Police briefly chased the suspect, later identified as Vongdara Vongvichitch, through surface streets before he crashed the Honda Civic he was driving into a fence on Limerick Avenue off Clairemont Mesa Boulevard in Clairemont. Police said he tried to escape into a canyon on foot but was quickly captured. According to police, the Honda that Vongvichitch was driving was stolen. Officers also found several cartons of cigarettes inside the car, but it's unclear if they were stolen from the gas station.