A man has been detained after allegedly carjacking a Toyota Prius in the San Mateo area of California, and eventually encountering a traffic crash that left him severely injured, the accident reports confirmed. The San Francisco Police Department announced the suspect’s arrest on Sunday, May 3.
The incident began at about 5 pm on Saturday, May 2, when officers from the San Francisco Police Department’s Ingleside Station got whiff of a just-concluded carjacking in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
Officers were immediately deployed to the location, near the area of Velasco Avenue and Santos Street, where they met the car owner.
The 36-year-old man narrated his ordeal to the police, informing them that he was riding his vehicle, a Toyota Prius, when a man flagged him down, requesting assistance to jumpstart his vehicle.
The unsuspecting owner pulled over to help, and immediately, the suspect approached the driver’s side door and forced him out of his car, striking him at least once until he complied.
Another man emerged at that moment, and the two men boarded the stolen vehicle and sped off. It was during their flight that the two carjackers got into an accident on Highway101 about 20 minutes later.
Police said the fleeing suspects were traveling along the highway, near the Highway 92 interchange, when the vehicle suddenly spiraled out of control and overturned. The Toyota came to rest on the service road.
The suspect, identified as Valentine Sua, 28, of Hayward, abandoned the car and tried fleeing on foot down 16th Avenue west, to South Delaware Street. Officers later accosted him in a residential, recreational vehicle, with moderate injuries. The second suspect was not located.
Sua was treated for his injuries, and then booked into the San Francisco Jail on charges of carjacking, conspiracy, robbery, and receiving stolen property, the accident reports affirmed.
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