Crime & Safety
Transient Arrested For Allegedly Carjacking Elderly Southbay Woman
The suspected was apprehended while attempting to flee in the stolen vehicle at SouthBay Pavillion Mall.
A man was arrested for allegedly carjacking a vehicle from an 80-year-old woman at a shopping center in Carson, police said.
At around 10 a.m. Saturday, officers got a call about someone breaking a car window with a bat at a parking lot in the 20700 block of Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Leo Foisner said.
Arriving deputies searched the immediate area and located the suspect, 35-year-old Jawwaad Garner, attempting to flee the scene in the allegedly stolen vehicle, Foisner said.
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Garner was taken into custody and the woman was unharmed.
Upon further investigation, deputies learned the suspect allegedly burglarized another vehicle in the area, Foisner said.
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Garner, a transient, was booked on suspicion of carjacking and burglary.
He’s being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
--City News Service
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