Man drives through stone wall, crashes car into Johns Creek house

By Kristi E. Swartz
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Police have identified a man who led them on a 10-minute chase through Gwinnett and Fulton counties before crashing through a stone wall and into a Johns Creek house early Friday morning

No one was hurt, but police had to taser the man to take him into custody, a Johns Creek police spokeswoman said.

Juan Soto, 22, of Snellville, was arrested after police chased the Ford F-150 truck he was driving from Duluth to Johns Creek.

According to a Duluth police report, an officer saw the white truck parked in front of the Moe's Southwest Grill in the Peachtree Hill Shopping Center around 2:50 a.m. The truck's driver's side door was open, and police saw a man walking around the building.

The man then got in the truck and began driving on Pleasant Hill Road, police said.
Police they began chasing the man on Pleasant Hill Road, driving at 85 miles an hour. As the truck was nearing State Bridge Road, it swerved to get around another vehicle, jumped the median and then swerved again, police said.

At that point, a Duluth Police officer stopped following the truck, but a Johns Creek police officer had begun chasing the vehicle instead.

The truck's lights were off, a Johns Creek police spokeswoman said.

The man turned south on Jones Bridge Road and traveled about a mile before he lost control of his vehicle and ran into a stone wall that fronted a house in the Jones Bridge Landing subdivision, police said.

The truck he was driving was registered to another man, police said.

A Johns Creek police spokeswoman said the man was charged with criminal damage to property, reckless driving, DUI, driving without a license and fleeing and attempting to elude police, which is a felony. He was taken to the Fulton County Jail.