Alameda man, suspect in Solano attempted burglary and vehicle chase, arraigned
Following his arrest last week, Steven Hanna, 42 of Alameda faced jail arraignment Monday on charges stemming from an attempted burglary investigation in rural Fairfield that escalated into a vehicle chase that ended with the suspect ramming a patrol car before crashing into a truck that disabled his truck and led to a brief foot chase.
Hanna, appeared in Department 24, Commissioner Bryan J. Kim’s courtroom, in the Hall of Justice for the proceeding, and he has apparently pleaded not guilty. Kim set the defendant’s bail at $360,000.
Kim assigned the case to Department 9, where at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Hanna will face Judge Carlos R. Gutierrez for a pretrial services report and a readiness conference in the Justice Center in Fairfield. The defendant, who is being represented by the Solano County Public Defender and remains in Solano County Jail, also faces a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. Sept. 28, also in Department 9, according to court and jail records.
The chaos started around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, when Solano County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Mankas Corner Road for a report of an “occupied residential burglary in progress.”
The victim said a man was attempting to break into her home. He was trying to open doors and windows, she said, and cut a hole in a window screen. When she yelled at him, he reportedly took off in a black Toyota pickup.
As deputies spoke with the woman, the suspect drove by the home and was identified by the victim as the suspect, officials said. Deputies ordered the suspect to stop but he sped off, officials said, leading deputies — and later the California Highway Patrol — on an estimated 42-minute pursuit through Suisun Valley and Highway 12 in the Rio Vista area.
A CHP air unit also joined the pursuit.
At one point, the suspect rammed a deputy’s patrol car. He then collided with a large Ford F350 pickup and disabled his black Toyota truck before running through an open field near Highway 12 and Denverton Road, officials said.
That’s when he surrendered, officials said and was arrested.
His truck was later found to be a stolen vehicle.
Hanna was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, attempted burglary, evading police with a wanton disregard for safety, evading police/being a wrong-way driver, vehicle theft, hit-and-run, and resisting arrest.