Modesto Police Track Down, Arrest Carjacking Suspect With Help From Bystanders

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MODESTO (CBS13) – Police are crediting the nationalist for helping them drawback a carjacking suspect.

The archetypal incidental happened arsenic the unfortunate loaded their conveyance astatine the Amtrak presumption connected Monday astir 8 a.m. The suspect, 37-year-old Leonard Rosas of Ceres, allegedly carjacked the conveyance and near the scene. In the process, Rosas allegedly injured the victim, according to a Modesto Police Department statement.

Officers searched for the fishy but came up empty-handed.

Later that day, a national reported a suspicious conveyance successful the 2300 artifact of Lincoln Oak Drive that turned retired to beryllium the conveyance that was stolen earlier successful the morning. Then, aboriginal on, Ceres constabulary were called retired to a theft successful the 1000 artifact of Oakdale Road.

When officers arrived, they learned Rosas had allegedly stolen a purse from a pistillate successful the Dunkin’ Donuts’ parking lot, pulled her from the vehicle, and attempted to carjack her conveyance but was unsuccessful.

A bully Samaritan who witnessed the theft followed the fishy and provided dispatch with updates connected their location. Modesto Police officers and detectives responded to the country wherever they recovered a information defender holding the fishy astatine gunpoint. Officers and detectives took the fishy into custody without further incident.

Rosas was arrested connected charges of robbery, carjacking, conveyance theft, attempted carjacking, and punishment for inflicting wounded connected a idiosyncratic portion committing a felony. He is being held connected astir $1 cardinal bail.

Anyone with further accusation is encouraged to interaction Detective Wilson astatine Wilsond@modestopd.com.