A Ben Lomond man was arrested after he led law enforcement officers on a brief vehicle and foot chase in Soquel this afternoon. 24 year-old Gene Ghaffari sped away when a California Highway Patrol officer tried to pull him over for a cell-phone violation. Ghaffari (who had a warrant out for his arrest from napa county) then crashed the car he was driving into a blue van, and fled on foot. He was caught a short ways away, and booked into Santa Cruz county jail.
