Five arrests after theft, Highway 63 chase

Five Jefferson City stealing suspects are now in jail after a police chase.

Authorities say the suspects took more than $3,000 worth of clothes from the Dick’s Sporting Goods store on Stoneridge Parkway at the capital on Sunday afternoon.

Officers spotted the alleged getaway car on Missouri Boulevard, and tried to stop it. They say that car took off, across the Missouri River and onto Highway 63.

Highway Patrol troopers used spike strips to stop the car on Highway 63 near Ashland.

Police say the five suspects are from Columbia: Laronya Brown, 21; Erneisha Dorema, 18; Tashianna Pitts, 28; Antanesha Jones, 17; and Reginald Guy, 27.

(This story was last updated at 7:55 a.m. Tuesday.)