LANCASTER – Several suspects were arrested Tuesday evening and two handguns were seized after an erratic car chase ended in a three-hour neighborhood lockdown, authorities said.
The police pursuit stemmed from an armed carjacking that occurred Monday morning (Aug. 19) on the 300 Block of East Avenue K-4, according to Lancaster Community Relations deputy Miguel Ruiz.
The victim told deputies a man held her at gunpoint and stole her white Mitsubishi Diamante and drove westbound on Avenue K in the stolen vehicle, Ruiz said.
Around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday (Aug. 20), deputies from the LAN-CAP team were in the area of 5th Street East and Avenue K when they recognized the stolen vehicle, packed with six occupants, Ruiz said.
As the deputies were coordinating a traffic stop, the vehicle took off.
Deputies gave chase, and the fleeing suspects drove into the Sienna Heights apartments near East Avenue K and Kirkland Avenue.
“At different times while the vehicle was evading, different occupants of the vehicle were jumping out of the car and running and hiding from pursuing deputies,” Ruiz said. “The last occupant was the driver, who got out of the car as the vehicle was still moving. He also attemped to evade deputies by hiding somewhere in the complex.”
The abandoned car rolled through a gate and crashed into a garage, Ruiz said.
“Fortunately, no bystanders were injured,” he added.
Deputies contained the area, and after about three hours, they flushed out and arrested five of the suspects.
Lancaster residents Tyjuan Martin, 44, Travis Berdine, 26, Joshua Sewell, 20, Nehemiah Bell, 22, and Anthony Lyons, 22, were booked at the Lancaster Station on carjacking charges and each jailed on $100,000 bail.
Deputies also arrested Sienna Heights residents Jamall Matthew, 26, and Rhonda Mayfield, 25, for acting as accessories to the fleeing suspects, Ruiz said. One man is still outstanding.
“A stolen semi-automatic handgun was recovered from the scene and a 9 mm handgun believed to be used in the initial carjacking was also recovered,” Ruiz said.
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Iveseenitall says
When will Californians learn? The ONLY way to help us get these thugs off the streets is to pony up the money and build new prisons. The courts are about to force the governor to release 10, 000 prisoners back out on the streets! That’s why these thugs keep coming back, no where to pur them. So eitherpay up, or ddon’t complain about crime.
yabbadabba says
Thank you LASD. Love knowing you’re patrolling and keeping our neighborhoods safe from thugs.
I know a few people that lived there once and had to move due to all the thugs…
Notagain says
WHOS TO BLAME FOR ALL THE CRIME THAT’S BEING COMMITED IN THE AV ?
WHY SO MUCH CRIME?
Up2here says
Way to go LASD! You guys should get a raise!!! You’ve been so busy lately. Thanks for cleaning up our cities :=)
Mr. Mister says
Wow really? Because this is completely identical to the TM case, right?
dumbandblind says
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.
– John Wayne
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
– Benjamin Franklin
There are thousands more quotes about the subject that unfortunately you won’t be able to understand.
sienna heights resident says
Of course they would end up in ghetto [removed] sienna heghts these apartments suck I always walk out of my apartment to people dealing drugs fighting and just stupid nonsense
No more ghetto says
So glad I moved out of there 3 weeks ago. I hated living in there with all the punk azz kids and their drugs.
James Sosa says
They should do what they did to the RaySack apartments. Burn them down !
carla says
i agree
Amanda Sanchez says
Im glad they got those bastards! there is too much crime like this that goes on there and i dont know about all of you but i want my kids to be able to live safe even if they are in a rural area. with idiots like this, nobody is safe. Look, he straight took a car from a woman and at gun point! what a coward. and all his friends in the car… cowards.
soapbox journal says
such upstanding citizens, lets offer them a medal for good conduct. More like permanently attached handcuffs and leg irons.
PO'd Yank says
Then throw them in some deep (very deep) water.
sikntired says
Good work lASD,5 more creeps off the street.
A. Richards says
And they will be back on the street in about 1.5 years if not sooner, most ikely only the driver and whoever is identified as the car hacker will be prosecuted, the others will be out in the next few days……