A man suspected of stealing a car from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles was arrested Sunday in Pasadena after he allegedly carjacked an Amazon driver’s SUV which was left running with the victim’s 13-year-old son inside.
The suspect ordered the boy to get out of the vehicle, Pasadena Police Lt. Tim Bundy said. The child was not injured. He said the suspect is an amputee but Bundy didn’t know if the man was wearing a prosthetic leg during the carjacking.
It happened shortly after 7 p.m. on Sunday.
Officers headed to the 3300 block of East Foothill Boulevard on a call of a parking enforcement vehicle from Cedars-Sinai driving erratically, Bundy said. The car ended up on Foothill Boulevard with a flat tire. It was an unreported stolen car, he said.
Another caller reported the carjacking.
A La Puente man left his Mitsubishi SUV to deliver a package, Bundy said. The victim’s son refused to get out of the vehicle when the suspect told him to get out, according to Bundy.
The suspect then said he had a gun and the boy left, he said, adding the child called his father. The father returned, saw the suspect and disabled the vehicle using his key fob, Bundy said.
The suspect headed to a Starbucks. Officers arrested a 37-year-old unhoused man on suspicion of carjacking and grand theft auto, Bundy said. He didn’t have a gun.
As of Monday morning, the suspect was being held at the Pasadena jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. He doesn’t have a court date yet.
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