Man who led police on chase not competent to stand trial

<p>Doctors have determined a young man who fled police from San Francisco to Santa Rosa last month is mentally incompetent to stand trial.</p><p>A judge had earlier suspended criminal proceedings against Cody Mittleman, 19, to allow time for a mental health exam.</p><p>Mittleman was charged with felony evading police in connection with a July 9 chase from south of the Golden Gate Bridge to Santa Rosa.</p><p>His family has said Mittleman suffers from mental health issues and was in line to be taken to a facility in Los Angeles when he was mistakenly released from a Santa Barbara County jail mental health unit. As he drove north, law enforcement authorities were notified and they tried to stop Mittleman.</p><p>No one was hurt in to ensuing chase.</p><p>Mittleman refused to come to court Monday. After hearing from a psychiatrist during the hearing, a judge ruled him incompetent and ordered a hearing Wednesday to determine if medications are warranted and, if so, how they would be administered.</p><p>He remained in Sonoma County Jail pending the hearing.</p>