Crime & Safety
High-Speed Chase Through East Bay Was After the Wrong Guys
Two men mistakenly thought to be murder suspects are in custody on other charges after a police chase that zipped through Livermore, Newark, San Leandro and other towns.
Wednesday night's high-profile, multi-jurisdictional police car chase — reportedly aimed at suspects in East Palo Alto murders — started in Newark and ended in the Livermore Valley with an apparent case of mistaken identity.
Two men taken into custody Wednesday night were not the murder suspects police are seeking, East Palo Alto police said.
Officers of a multi-jurisdictional task force that was formed to capture Jaime Cardenas and Fidel Silva — two men suspected of murder in Grand Junction, Colo., and of two other murders in East Palo Alto — spotted a vehicle in Newark registered to one of the murder suspects at around 7:45 p.m., according to police.
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