If I were this guy, I'd be less concerned about going to jail and more concerned about being ETERNALLY HAUNTED.
25-year-old James Juarez in Pasadena, California stole a 2017 Lincoln Navigator from outside of a church on Wednesday night. But he probably didn't realize it was actually a HEARSE . . . and there was a casket with a DEAD BODY in the back.
James laid low for the night, but the cops in Los Angeles spotted him yesterday morning . . . and they got into a high-speed chase.
It ended when James crashed the SUV on the freeway about a minute later.
He was arrested . . . and the casket and body inside were transferred to a different vehicle.
(CBS 2 - Los Angeles) (Here's a picture of the crash.) Image © 2020 GettyImages