PETALUMA, Calif. - A 60-year-old Sonoma woman was arrested in Petaluma on Thursday after allegedly leading police on a chase while driving under the influence.

Petaluma Police Department officers were dispatched just before 6:10 p.m. on Thursday to the area of Jess Avenue and Payran Street on reports of "an occupied suspicious vehicle" in the middle of the road, according to a department statement .

Arriving officers found the car in the middle of the road, but it then fled "at a high rate of speed" while running through several red lights, the PPD reported.

The suspect led officers on a five-mile, 15-minute pursuit with speeds ranging from three to 50 miles per hour, police reported. The chase extended through the western side of Petaluma before the suspect pulled into a dead-end r

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