TORONTO -- A high-speed chase involving an alleged carjacking in California ended when the vehicle plunged off a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean.

On Wednesday afternoon, officers with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office were investigating reports of a man firing a handgun on a highway near Davenport, Calif., about 70 kilometres south of San Jose, when the suspect allegedly stole a vehicle and drove toward nearby Santa Cruz.

Police say the suspect was driving in excess of 160 km/h and the chase ended when the vehicle drove off a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean.

The suspect was arrested “after climbing out of the stolen vehicle, as he stumbled up the rocky shoreline,”

Police say no one was injured.