CARJACKING SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER CRASH.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Two teen-agers suspected of carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger a new sport-utility vehicle sport-u·til·i·ty vehicle n. Abbr. SUV A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a roomy body, designed for off-road travel. at gunpoint from a woman with a child were in custody after crashing the SUV into a wall a half-mile away, sheriff's officials said. The 17-year-old Palmdale boys are accused of stealing a new Ford Expedition The Ford Expedition is a full-size SUV built by the Ford Motor Company. Introduced in 1997 it slots between the smaller Ford Explorer, and the now discontinued and larger Ford Excursion. The Expedition offers up to eight passenger seating and a range of V8 engines. in the parking lot of Mesa Intermediate School in the 3200 block of Avenue R-8 at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, officials said. The woman and her child were walking to their vehicle when one boy produced a handgun and demanded the keys, officials said. She complied, and the gunman drove away in her vehicle. The gunman picked up the second teen, but crashed into a block wall at 37th Street East and Avenue R-8. Both boys took off on foot. A few minutes later, a deputy responding to the carjacking call spotted the teen-agers in a field north of Avenue S, west of 47th Street East. The deputy detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: them. Deputies later recovered a stolen and loaded .38 revolver revolver: see small arms. revolver Pistol with a revolving cylinder that provides multishot action. Some early versions, known as pepperboxes, had several barrels, but as early as the 17th century pistols were being made with a revolving chamber to from the back yard of a vacant house in the 4300 block of East Avenue R-13. The woman and her child were not hurt, officials said. The suspects were being held without bail at Challenger Memorial Youth Center on suspicion of carjacking. |
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