A German Shepard seen wandering down the center median of Highway 99 in Galt was finally captured by police, five weeks after she first fell off a pickup truck. 
 
 Officers first received a 911 call on April 10 alerting them that the dog, nicknamed Freeway Frida, had fallen from a truck and her owners hadn’t realized it. 
 
 Galt police went to search for her that day but were unsuccessful. 
 
 In the days and weeks that followed, dozens of calls kept coming in about an injured dog seen wandering down the center median of the highway in the oleander bushes. Officers kept searching without luck. 
 
 “Last week, when we stopped getting calls, I thought something happened, she, you know, died,” Galt Police Officer Silvia Coelho said. 
 
 However, another sighting of Frida was reported about 6:30 a.m. Saturday. Coelho knew it was now or never. 
 
 “We are getting her today, that’s it,” Coelho said. “It’s Saturday morning (and) traffic is light. We are getting this dog.” 
 
 With the help of the California Highway Patrol, Galt police shut down Hwy. 99 and found Frida, who initially put up a fight against being captured and continued to hide from officers. But the malnourished and scared dog finally gave in. 
 
 “She just laid down and looked at us with those big brown eyes and was like, ‘Oh thank you,' and like, 'Please help me,’” Coelho said. 
 
 Coelho took Frida to VCA Bradshaw Animal Hospital in Elk Grove, where veterinarian Dr. Mike Johnson diagnosed Frida with a broken tibia. 
 
 She was also emaciated and weighed just 44 pounds. A healthy adult German Shepard should weigh at least 65 pounds. 
 
 “We were speculating on what she’s been doing for food and water these last five weeks,” Johnson said. “Maybe the rain.” 
 
 At first, Frida was skittish and scared. However, once she realized the veterinarians were there to help, she warmed up to them. 
 
 “You could tell that she had a good home some place because she responded well to people being around her,” Johnson said. 
 
 Coelho has returned to the hospital twice to spend time with Frida. She’s even considered adopting her. 
 
 “I wish I could keep her,” Coelho said. “With my line of work, I’m never home, so she needs a good, loving home that will help her heal.” 
 
 However, Coelho isn’t too upset. After weeks of trying to catch her, Frida is finally safe. 
 
 “It made our day," Coelho said. "The whole day we were just all smiles and so happy.” 
 
 Galt police are still searching for Frida’s owner and hope to reunite them. She did not have a microchip. 
 
 KCRA's Tom Miller contributed to this report. ||||| A suspected car thief was arrested early Tuesday morning after a crash in West Marin led to a police chase through Fairfax and a second wreck in San Anselmo. 
 
 The incident began shortly at about 10:40 p.m. Monday near the Marin French Cheese Co. in Hicks Valley. According to preliminary reports, a woman driving a Toyota Solara on Point Reyes-Petaluma Road passed a Honda that was driving at a slower speed. Then the Honda accelerated and passed her, but it crashed farther down the road. 
 
 The woman told police she stopped at the crash scene to see if she could help. A man who was in the wrecked Honda then jumped into the woman's car and drove off, said Marin County sheriff's Lt. Rudy Yamanoha. 
 
 Police and sheriff's deputies throughout the county were alerted to look for the stolen Toyota. At about 11 p.m., Fairfax police Sgt. Rico Tabaranza spotted the stolen car driving through town and tried to pull it over. 
 
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 The driver would not yield, heading east on Center Boulevard at 80 to 100 mph. Tabaranza briefly lost sight of the car, but the driver lost control near Madrone Avenue and crashed. 
 
 The Toyota took out a stop sign and struck a cement fixture and a parked car before coming to rest outside a home. The driver ran off. 
 
 "I heard this big friggin' explosion, and I knew it was a crash," said Grove Lane resident Peter Gilberd, who said he was drifting off to sleep when he heard the impact. 
 
 Marin sheriff's deputies and police from Fairfax, San Rafael, Central Marin and Ross all descended on the neighborhood to close Center Boulevard and look for the suspect. 
 
 At about 12:15 a.m., a search dog found the suspect hiding in the neighborhood just north of Center Boulevard. The dog clamped the suspect and police cuffed him. 
 
 The suspect was taken to Marin General Hospital for treatment. His name was not released early Tuesday. 
 
 Authorities were investigating conflicting reports that a second suspect might have been in the car. 
 
 The California Highway Patrol was investigating the initial crash on Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. Police said the Honda that crashed was itself stolen. 
 
 The woman whose Toyota was stolen by the suspect, and then wrecked in San Anselmo, had just purchased the car about three weeks ago, police said. It still had its paper dealership plates from Avenida Auto Sales in Santa Rosa. ||||| SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The San Francisco Police Department is investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy from Utah, after a statue fell on him outside a store on Fisherman’s Wharf Friday afternoon. City officials said they have warned the business about safety issues before. 
 
 When Fisherman’s Wharf gets busy, the sidewalks fill up pretty fast. So, police require businesses to keep their merchandise behind a blue line in front of their stores. But on Friday, the Majestic Gallery crossed that line, and it led to tragedy. 
 
 “The police and fire department responded to a call for a young child, one or two years old, had a statue fall on him,” Officer Gordon Shyy of the San Francisco Police Department told KPIX 5. 
 
 Kayson Shelton was visiting with his family from Utah when he tried climbing one of the store’s bronze dolphin statues that police said was out on the sidewalk. The heavy sculpture fell onto Kayson. 
 
 At first he seemed okay, but he had internal injuries and later died at the hospital. Police cited Majestic Gallery, saying they have been warned in the past. 
 
 “The San Francisco Police Department officers that were working the America’s Cup had asked this business to move their dolphins back across on the other side of the blue line because of the high volume of pedestrian traffic,” Shyy said. 
 
 Wharf vendors said they understand the rules but question whether Kayson’s parents had left the boy and his siblings unattended. 
 
 “They were trying to climb onto a statue and it fell. So if it was inside the store or outside, at that point it doesn’t matter, I mean, the child was unwatched and unfortunately he lost his life,” said Fisherman’s Wharf vendor John Terry. 
 
 But the businesses rely on walk-up traffic, and one vendor showed how empty her store has become since they moved everything off the sidewalks. 
 
 “Already no business, looks like winter time, it’s not summertime now. It’s no good because the people don’t want to go inside the stores,” said a vendor, who did not want to give her name. 
 
 Police said the blue line is there for a reason and, after this tragedy, they will be less likely to excuse businesses that try to step over it. 
 
 Majestic Collection sent a short statement to KPIX 5 Monday: 
 
 This is an unfortunate and tragic incident. Majestic Collection is and has been co-operating with all investigative agencies. Our hearts and prayers are with the family. 
 
 An online fundraising website has been set up for Kayson’s family to help with funeral expenses and other costs. 
 
 As of Monday afternoon, more than $7,100 had been raised toward a $10,000 goal. 
 
 Donations can be made online to his parents Toni and Scott Shelton at http://www.youcaring.com/memorial-fundraiser/kayson-shelton/188172. 
 
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– A Chihuahua, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and the California Highway Patrol: It all adds up to one of the more entertaining police chases in a while. As the Los Angeles Times reports, one officer in a car and another on a motorcycle managed to catch the runaway dog on the bridge Sunday morning. Police had to stop traffic, and the two officers finally teamed up to safely corral and capture the pooch. "We’ve had dogs on the bridge, all sorts of animals: seals, turtles, you name it," says one of them. "We never had one that took off and took so long to get." The dog has no ID tags, and police are still trying to find the owner. For now, cops have dubbed him "Ponch," after the CHiPs character. (This dachshund went on a dolphin chase.)